§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Energy (1) if he will give financial backing to the national engineering laboratory in East Kilbride to enable it to develop and build a full-scale wave energy generator;
- (2) if he will give grants to Lanchester polytechnic to help develop a full-scale model of its wave energy generator;
- (3) if he will give further financial backing to Dr. Stephen Salter of Edinburgh university to advance the development of the filter duck wave energy generator.
§ Mr. MellorI shall be taking no major decisions on the future of the wave energy research programme until I have considered the advice of my Advisory Council on Research and Development for Fuel and Power, which is due in the spring.