§ Sir A. Meyerasked the Lord President of the Council whether he will arrange for studies of population questions to be carried out, following the recent report of the Select Committee on Science and Technology on this subject.
§ Mr. WhitelawThe White Paper Cmnd. 4748 published today setting out the Government's observations on the Select Committee's Report envisages that such studies should be carried out by a new Panel of Government and independent experts. Mr. C. R. Ross of the Central Policy Review Staff has been appointed Chairman of the Panel. It will not be possible to announce the rest of the membership before the Recess.