HC Deb 27 March 1969 vol 780 cc363-4W
Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what are his plans for the future of the Agricultural Advisory Council and the Horticultural Advisory Council.

Mr. Cledwyn Hughes

The terms of office of the former Councils expired at the end of 1968 and I have now reconstituted them with new terms of reference. I am glad to say that Mr. N. E. Strutt has agreed to serve as Chairman of the new Agricultural Advisory Council and Mr. D. G. Frampton as Chairman of the new Horticultural Advisory Council. My Chief Agricultural Adviser will be Vice-Chairman of both Councils. The remaining members are drawn for the most part, from the agricultural and horticultural industries and from the academic world.

The terms of reference of the Agricultural Advisory Council are: To advise the Minister on the broad field of the experimental, development and advisory functions of the Ministry including the identification of fields in which further information is required to enable these functions to be carried out effectively; and, in particular, to advise what means should be used to encourage those engaged in agriculture to apply the results of research and experiment as rapidly as possible.

proportion of mongol births, expressed as a proportion of all live births, in Wirral compared to the national proportion in each of the last five years.

Mr. Crossman

Figures are available only for counties and county boroughs, as follows:

The terms of reference of the Horticultural Advisory Council are similar.

I should like to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the valuable services that the former Councils and, in particular, the Chairmen have rendered to my Department over the past six years.

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