§ Mr. Waddingtonasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what decision he has come to on the application by the Steel Castings Research and Trade Association for a statutory levy under Section 9 of the Industrial Organisation and Development Act, 1947 to support research on steel castings.
§ Mr. RidleyI do not believe that statutory levies are compatible with the nature of co-operative technical research and while I do not propose to disturb existing arrangements of this sort, I have decided not to add a new steel castings levy to their number.