HC Deb 26 January 1970 vol 794 c237W
69. Mr. David Howell

asked the Minister of Technology what proposals he now has in the light of current plans for the reorganisation of Government research activities, and for transferring research functions at present carried out in the public sector to private industry.

Mr. Benn

A recent Green Paper set out for wide discussion Government proposals for reorganising and redirecting its industrial R. & D. resources, designed to bring about a new relationship between the programmes of the laboratories involved and the needs of industry.