§ Mr. Douglasasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will itemise the total expenditure by his Department on information services on the following basis: in-house UKCIS, INSPEC, BIOSIS, CAB, COMPENDEX British Library and others.
§ Mr. Mark Carlisle[pursuant to his reply, 22 July 1980 c. 185]: Consultations within my Department have identified no direct expenditure on the information services referred to. Inquiries of fringe bodies would have caused disproportionate effort and have not been pursued.