§ Mr. Hoosonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will consider taking steps to establish a Welsh Educational and Sociological Research Institute affiliated to the University of Wales, in order to co-ordinate and initiate educational and sociological research in Wales.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsIt is open to the University of Wales, or to any interested party in consultation with the University, to take an initiative of this kind; but in general the encouragement and support of research in the social sciences by any means throughout the United Kingdom is a function of the Social Science Research Council, and the question of how educational and sociological research in Wales can best be fostered is a matter primarily for that Council to consider in the first instance.