§ Mr. Richard Shepherdasked the Secretary of State for Energy why the energy technology support unit programme managers, who run the research and development work on each renewable energy source for the Department of Energy, were not invited to the Advisory Council on Research and Development for fuel and power meeting on 19 March, which made recommendations on the future of this research and development work.
§ Mr. MellorThe ETSU programme managers are not members of ACORD. The advice prepared for ACORD by the steering committees for each technology and by ETSU took full account of the views of the programme managers. ETSU was represented at ACORD by five senior members of Harwell, including the chairman of all the steering committees. In these circumstances there was no need to invite the programme managers as well.