§ Mr. Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list the major projects carried out during the last six months by (a) the Medical Research Council, (b) the Natural Environment Research Council, (c) the Science Research Council, and (d) the Social Science Research Council.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsMajor projects are seldom if ever completed within a period of six months. Each Council will be publishing a full account of its activities since 1st April in its annual report for 1977–78.
§ Mr. Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish in the Official Report the names of the current members of the Social Science Research Council, giving in each case the salary or fees paid on an annual basis; and what information she has on the normal full-time occupation of each.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsThe information is as follows:
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Mr. Derek Robinson (Chairman): Senior Research Officer, Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford.Members
Professor W. Brass: Professor of Medical Demography, Director of Centre for Overseas Population Studies London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Mr. D. Brooks: Chief Personnel Director of Hoover Ltd. in the United Kingdom.Mr. H. J. D. Cole*: Director General (Economics and Resources), Department of Environment.Sir James Dunnett, G.C.B., C.M.G.: Chairman of Institute of Manpower Studies.Professor P. G. Hall: Professor of Geography, University of Reading.Professor R. Illsley: Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, Director of MRC Unit of Medical Sociology, Aberdeen.Professor M. Kogan: Professor of Government Studies and Social Administration, Brunel University.Ms. Ann Lapping: Journalist on staff of Economist.Professor A. C. Mayer: Professor of Asian Anthropology School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.Professor Maurice Peston: Professor of Economics, Queen Mary College London.Mr. B. Rayner*: Under Secretary, Computers and Research Division, Department of Health and Social Security.Dr. S. Rose: Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford.Mr. W. G. Runciman: Fellow of Trinity College, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Cambridge.Professor H. R. Schaffer: Professor of Psychology at Strathclyde University.Professor B. E. Supple: Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Sussex.Professor D. E. C. Wedderburn Industrial Sociology Unit, Imperial College, London.Mr. N. B. Willis: Assistant General Secretary, TUC.Professor M. J. Wise: Professor of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science.Professor J. Wrigley: Professor of Curriculum Research and Development, University of Reading.The Chairman receives an annual salary of £7,000 based on two and a half days a week devoted to SSRC affairs. Non-departmental members are eligible for an honorarium of £750 p.a.* Departmental member.
§ Mr. Hollandasked the Secretary of for Education and Science if she will publish in the Official Report the names of the current members of the Science Research Council, giving in each case the salary or fees paid on an annual basis; and what information she has on the normal full-time occupation of each.
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§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsThe information is as follows:
Name and Occupation
Professor G. Allen, FRS (Chairman): Professor of Chemical Technology, Imperial College.Members
Professor Sir Granville Beynon, CBE, FRS: Professor of Physics, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.Dr. J. Birks, CBE: Technical Director and Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of BP Trading Ltd.Professor Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS (*): Chief Scientist, Department of Energy.Professor R. L. F. Boyd, CBE, FRS: Professor of Physics, University College, London.Professor J. Brown: Professor of Light Electrical Engineering, Imperial College.Professor W. E. Burcham, FRS: Professor of Physics, University of Birmingham.Dr. P. F. Chester: Director, Central Electricity Research Laboratories.Dr. D. S. Davies*: Chief Scientist, Department of Industry.Professor W. E. Farvis, OBE, FRSE: Professor of Electrical Engineering University of Edinburgh.Professor J. H. Horlock FRS: Vice Chancellor, University of Salford.Dr. M. W. Holdgate*: Director General of Research, Department of Environment.Professor J. L. Jinks, FRS: Professor of Genetics, University of Birmingham.Dr. A. J. Kennedy: Director of BNF Metals Technology Centre.Sir Norman Lindop: Director, Hatfield Polytechnic.Professor J. C. Polkinghorne FRS: Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Cambridge.Professor Sir George Porter FRS: Director, The Royal Institution of Great Britain.Mr. D. H. Roberts: Managing Director, Microsystems Division, Plessey Components Ltd.The full-time Chairman receives an annual salary of £14,330. Non-departmental members are eligible for an honorarium of £750 p.a.* Departmental member.
§ Mr. Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish in the Official Report the names of the current members of the Natural Environment Research Council, giving in each case the salary or fees paid on an annual basis; and what information she has on the normal full-time occupation of each.
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§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsThe information is as follows:
Name and Occupation
Professor J. W. L. Beament, FRS (Chairman), Drapers' Professor of Agriculture and Head of Department of Applied Biology, University of Cambridge.Members
Professor J. A. Allen: Director of the University Marine Biological Station, Millport.Dr. W. R. Boon, FRS: Former Joint Managing Director of Plant Protection Ltd.Professor T. J. Chandler: Professor of Geography, University of Manchester.Professor A. H. Cook, FRS: Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.Dr. J. C. Coulson: Reader in Animal Biology, University of Durham.Dr. D. S. Davies*: Chief Scientist, Department of Industry.Mr. H. Fish, OBE: Director of Scientific Services, Thames Water Authority.Professor J. L. Harper: Professor of Agricultural Botany and Head of School of Plant Biology, University of North Wales, Bangor.Dr. M. W. Holdgate,*: Director General of Research, Department of the Environment.Professor F. G. T. Holliday, CBE: Professor of Zoology, University of Aberdeen.Sir Peter Kent, FRS: Former Exploration Manager. British Petroleum and former Chairman of the Council.Sir Cyril Lucas, CMG, FRS: Former Director of Fisheries Research, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Scotland.Professor E. Naylor: Director, Port Erin Marine Biological Station and Professor of Marine Biology, University of Liverpool.Mr. J. S. Sawyer, FRS: Former Director of Research, Meteorological Office.Professor J. Sutton, FRS: Professor of Geology, Imperial College of Science and Technology.Professor E. A. Vincent: Professor of Geology, University of Oxford.Dr. B. G. F. Weitz, OBE*: Chief Scientist, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.Mr. G. Williams, OBE: Director General. UK Offshore Operators Association Ltd.The Chairman receives an annual salary of £5,683 based on two days a week devoted to NERC affairs.Non-departmental members are eligible for an honorarium of £750 per annum.* Departmental member.
§ Mr. Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish in the Official Report the names of the current members of the Medical Research Council, giving in each case the salary or fees paid on a 12-month basis; and what information she has on 141W the normal full-time occupation or qualification of each.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsThe information is as follows:
Name and Occupation
Sir Douglas Black*: Chief Scientist, Department of Health and Social Security.Professor A. J. Buller: Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Bristol.Sir Arnold Burgen, FRS†: Director MRC National Institute for Medical Research.Professor W. J. H. Butterfield, OBE: Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge.Professor R. H. Cawley: Professor of Psychological Medicine, Kings College Hospital Medical School and Institute of Psychiatry.Professor A. R. Currie, FRSE: Professor of Pathology, University of Edinburgh.My hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, North (Mr. Davies): Member of Parliament.Mr. K. P. Duncan*: Director of Medical Service, Health and Safety Executive.Professor A. P. M. Forrest: Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh.Professor I. M. Glynn, FRS: Professor of Membrane Physiology, University of Cambridge.Professor R. F. Mahler: Professor of Medicine, Welsh National School of Medicine.Professor D. C. Phillips, FRS: Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
MAINTAINED SCHOOLS INCLUDING NURSERY AND SPECIAL—ENGLAND October 1976 May 1977 October 1977 (i) Pupils in attendance … … … … 7,929,000 7,983,000 7,878,000 (ii) Numbers taking dinners … … … 5,503,000 5,386,000 4,855,000 (iii) Proportion taking dinners … … … 69.4 per cent. 67.5 per cent. 61.7 per cent. (iv) Numbers taking free dinners … … 779,000 821,000 927,000 (a) as Proportion of those in attendance … 9.8 per cent. 10.2 per cent. 11.8 per cent. (b) as proportion of dinners served … … 14.2 per cent. 15.2 per cent. 19.1 per cent. On the day of the census, school dinners were taken by 70.5 per cent. of all pupils present in primary schools—77.2 per cent. last year—and by 50.3 per cent. in secondary schools—59 per cent. last year.
The census also collected information about pupils (a) purchasing snack meals in school and (b) bringing their own food to eat at midday. The respective numbers were 27,000 and 1,025,000 compared with 47,000 and 609,000 last year. Nine out of 10 snack meals were purchased in secondary schools and 17 per cent. of secondary pupils brought their
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Dr. J. J. A. Reid, CB*: Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Home and Health Department.Dr. J. L. Gowans, CBE, FRS†: Secretary to the Council.Cecily M. S. Saunders, OBE: General practitioner St. Christopher's Hospice, London. SE26.Professor J. N. Walton: Regional Neurological Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne.Sir Henry Yellowlees, KCB*: Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security.The Chairman—post vacant at present—is shortly to be appointed and will be entitled to an honorarium of £1,000 p.a. Non-departmental members other than employees of the Council are eligible for an honorarium of £750 p.a.* Departmental member.
† Employee of Council.