§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the universities, hospitals or other establishments in the United Kingdom at which research directly or indirectly sponsored by his Department is taking place or has taken place over the last three years.
§ Mr. LeeOver the past three years the Ministry of Defence has directly sponsored research at a large number of the United Kingdom universities and polytechnics and some of their associated hospital research departments and institutes. I will place a list of the bodies concerned in the Library of the House. It is not our practice to give details of research contracts.
Information on indirect involvement could not be extracted without disproportionate effort.
§ Mr. Cohenasked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will make a statement on the purpose of the research carried out on behalf of his Department at the university of Glasgow involving the toxins from anthrax basilli and cholera organisms;
(2) if he will make a statement on the purpose of the research carried out on behalf of his Department at the university of Kent at Canterbury involving tricothenes.
§ Mr. LeeIt is not the policy of this Government or their predecessors to give information of this nature concerning research contracts.