HC Deb 16 December 1988 vol 143 c776W
Dr. Thomas

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make it his policy to support the national farm interpretation project, based at the Open University, Milton Keynes, after its present funding ends in January 1989.

Mr. Donald Thompson

I understand that the Open university's new countryside interpretation unit will absorb the work of the farm interpretation project when that project ceases at the end of January 1989. The countryside interpretation unit will, unlike the farm interpretation project, be able to raise its own income by operating on a fully commercial basis.