§ Sir Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to reply to the letter of the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, South-West dated 9 April referring to the privatisation of the Plant Breeding Institute.
§ Sir Keith JosephI wrote to my hon. Friend on 13 May.
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§ Sir Keith JosephThe information that is given in the following table has been drawn from the annual White Paper on public expenditure (Cmnd. 9143, 9428 and 9702). The figures exclude expenditure on the microelectronics in education programme which ran from 1980–81 to 1985–86 and the technical and vocational education initiative which began in 1983–84. It is estimated that the addition of the expenditure under these programmes would raise the average unit cost for all schools by at most £10 per pupil per annum.
§ Sir Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to receive the report of Lazard Brothers on the privatisation of the National Seed Development Organisation and part of the Plant Breeding Institute; if he will publish the report; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. WaldenThe Agriculture Ministers and I expect to receive the report of Lazard Brothers and Company Ltd. on the proposed privatisation of the National Seed 511W Development Company and part of the Plant Breeding Institute shortly. The report will contain commercially confidential material and will not be published. My right hon Friend will make a statement as soon as decisions have been taken.