HC Deb 26 October 1967 vol 751 c532W
43. Mr. Willey

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science why there is no Government civil research station in the Northern Region; and what steps are being taken to establish such a station.

Mr. Gordon Walker

Of the bodies for which I am responsible, the Medical Research Council has its Reproduction and Growth Research Unit and Demyelinating Diseases Research Unit at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Natural Environment Research Council supports the Freshwater Biological Association Laboratory at Windermere in Westmorland.