§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Minister of Overseas Development if he will take steps to arrange that further United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation projects in which the United Kingdom acts as host country are held in Scotland.
§ Mr. OramThe location of projects depends upon such factors as their nature and timing, the availability of conference and technical facilities and accommodation, travelling arrangements for participants and local offers of assistance. Although, fortuitously, these factors have not combined to produce a project in Scotland during the 1969–70 biennium, I am always ready to consider the claims of Scottish universities and other institutions on occasions when it would be appropriate for the United Kingdom to act as host country.