§ Mr. Biffenasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how the expenditure on foot-and-mouth research at Pirbright approximately divides between vaccines and controlling the spread of the disease by non-vaccination methods.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsApproximately 40 per cent. of the expenditure at Pirbright relates to work on vaccines and vaccination. About 15 per cent. is devoted to studies of epidemiology and of control methods arising from these studies; while about 45 per cent. is for fundamental studies of virology (carried out on foot-and-mouth and other viruses) that are relevant to any approach to the control of the disease.