§ Mr. Adam Hunterasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, in view of the scientific standards achieved in some work produced by the Experimental Information Unit at Oxford University, he will give an assurance that no further public money will be voted to this unit until the standards have been improved; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerNo. It would be for the British Library Board to consider applications for further support on their merits. I would not expect to intervene in the day-to-day management of the sums put at the board's disposal for the support of scientific and technical information.
§ Mr. Adam Hunterasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the total amount of money originating from his Department which has been spent on the comparative evaluation experiment to compare scientific information services, which has been carried out at Oxford University.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerSome £46,000 was spent from August 1968 to February 1973 on the development and testing of a method of comparative evaluation of scientific information services.