Radio and Space Research Station

HC Deb 21 March 1969 vol 780 cc160-1W

Mr. David Howell

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the total cost in the current year of the Radio and Space Research Station and the number of qualified scientists and engineers and other staff currently employed there; and if he will list the five most expensive projects on which the establishment is engaged, with the cost of each.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

The estimated expenditure in 1968–69 by the Radio and Space Research Station is £1,120,000. The station has 275 staff, of whom 95 are qualified scientists and engineers. The five most expensive projects, with their estimated cost in 1968–69, are:

	£
(1) Data acquisition from Satellites	173,000
(2) Ionospheric Rocket Experiments	104,000
(3) Chilbolton Steerable Aerial	102,000
(4) Radio-Wave Propagation through the troposphere	95,000
(5) Computer Services	91,000