§ Mr. Biffenasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the estimated annual expenditure of public funds on research into foot-and-mouth disease during each of the past five years.
§ Mr. Gordon WalkerResearch on foot-and-mouth disease is concentrated at the Animal Virus Reseach Institute, Pirbright, where it constitutes approximately three-quarters of the work of that Institute. The grants from the Agricultural Research Council to the Institute for the last five financial years have been as follows:
Net expenditure and hence the size of grant needed varies with variations in revenue from the sale of vaccines overseas, which in turn depends on outbreaks of the disease overseas.
Year Total 1962/63 … … 536,587 1963/64 … … 248,863 1964/65 … … 390,462 1965/66 … … 499,379 1966/67 … … 522,821