§ Mr. Carterasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he intends to vary the grant to the Medical Research Council.
§ Mrs. ThatcherI have been asked to reply to this Question.
The Grant-in-aid to the M.R.C. which falls on a Vote of my Department is settled each year on the advice of the Council for Scientific Policy. The grant for next year will be announced in due 246W course, when the Estimates for the Research Councils are presented to the House.