§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if his Department has received any applications for support to develop a human protein body map.
§ Mr. Willam Shelton:My Department's responsibilities for the support of scientific research are discharged by the research councils, which receive grant-in-aid from the science budget, and by universities, which receive block grants for teaching and research from the University Grant Committee. I am not aware of any application having been received to do the kind of work in question, but I understand that work is in progress at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois to construct a human protein index and that the Medical Research Council is currently supporting related research at the University of Birmingham and has provided funds for a member of the team concerned to work at the Argonne National Laboratory for short periods.