HC Deb 06 November 1975 vol 899 cc317-8W
Mr. Fairbairn

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science why £145,000 was expended on extending the Medical Research Council building which was completed for the sum of £100,000 in 1970 in Newcastle.

Mr. Mulley

This expenditure is being undertaken by the Medical Research Council in order to improve facilities for its demyelinating diseases unit and to allow scope for development of the unit's work, particularly on research into multiple sclerosis to which the council attaches high priority.