HC Deb 17 May 1988 vol 133 c386W
19. Mr. Maxton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he last met the president of the Royal Society to discuss research funding.

Mr. Jackson

My right hon. Friend has not had an official meeting with the president of the Royal Society to discuss research funding. I have. We have, of course, taken note of the points made by Sir George Porter in his recent Richard Dimbleby lecture on science.