HC Deb 29 October 1970 vol 805 c194W
Mr. Stratton Mills

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when the Northern Ireland member of the British Council Executive resigned; and whether a successor has been appointed.

Mr. Anthony Royle

I am informed that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department, after consulting the Government of Northern Ireland, has nominated, under By-law No 12 of the British Council, Professor J. L. McCracken, M.A., Ph.D., of the New University of Ulster to succeed the late Mr. J. E. Sayers who died in August, 1969.