HC Deb 04 May 1989 vol 152 cc193-5W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list by standard region the research institutes operated for or on behalf of his Department and the total employment thereat; if he will give for each region the total number of such institutes and the employment therein; and if he will express the regional totals as a percentage of the national totals.

Mr. Donald Thompson

The information requested is as follows. In addition, my Department also commissions research with the Agricultural and Food Research Council and universities, which are the responsibilities of the Department of Education and Science, food research associations and others.

Number of staff Regional totals1
Northern
Experimental Husbandry Farm: 151/2
Redesdale
Veterinary Investigation Centre:
Newcastle 14
Penrith 14

Number of staff Regional totals1
Directorate of Fisheries research: 3
Fisheries Radiobiological
Laboratory, Whitehaven
Total staff 46½ 2
Number of Units 4 7
North West
Veterinary Investigation Centre: 15
Barton Hall
Total staff 15 1
Number of Units 1 2
Yorkshire and Humberside
Experimental Husbandry Farm: High Mowthorpe 26½
Experimental Horticulture Station: 57½
Stockbridge House
Veterinary Investigation Centre: Thirsk 13½
Total staff 97½ 4
Number of Units 3 5
East Midlands
Expeerimental Husbandry Farm: 43½
Gleadthorpe
Exprimental Horticulture Station: 29
Kirton
Veterinary Investigation Centre:
Lincoln 18
Sutton Bonington 15
Total staff 105½ 5
Number of Units 4 7
West Midlands
Experimental Husbandry Farm:
Drayton 21½
Rosemaund 25
Experimental Horticulture Station: 47
Luddington
Experimental Unit: Feed Evaluation Unit, Drayton 8
Veterinary Investigation Centre:
Shrewsbury 16
Worcester 20
Total Staff 137½ 6
Number of Units 6 10
East Anglia
Experimental Husbandry Farm:
Arthur Rickwood 21
Boxworth 16½
Terrington 27½
Experimental Unit: Field Drainage 17
Experimental Unit, Cambridge
Veterinary Investigation Centre:
Cambridge 15
Norwich 15
ADAS Central Science Laboratories: 5
Norwich
Food Science Laboratories: Norwich 43½
Directorate of Fisheries Research, Lowestoft 331½
Total staff 492 21
Number of units 9 15
South East
Experimental Husbandry Farm: 30
Bridgets
Experimental Horticulture Station:
National Fruit Trials 28
Efford 54
Mushroom unit: Littlehampton 2

Number of staff Regional totals1
Experimental Unit: Farm Buildings 4
Development Centre, Reading
ADAS Central Science Laboratories:
Harpenden 105½
Slough 131½
Tolworth 40
Worplesdon 29
Veterinary Investigation Centre:
Winchester 10
Reading 15
Wye 10
Central Veterinary Laboratory: 498
Weybridge
Central Veterinary Laboratory: 32½
Farringdon/Shinfield Cattle
Breeding Centre
Food Science Laboratories: London 14½
Directorate of Fisheries Research: 43½
Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham
Total staff 1,047½ 46
Number of units 16 28
South West
Experimental Husbandry Farm: 19½
Liscombe
Experimental Horticulture Station: 38½
Rosewarne
Sub-station: Isles of Scilly 1
ADAS Central Science Laboratories: 5
Woodchester Park
Veterinary Investigation Centre:
Langford 18
Starcross 14
Truro 12
Directorate of Fisheries Research: Fish 25
Disease Laboratory, Weymouth
Total staff 133 6
Number of units 8 14
Wales
Experimental Husbandry Farm: 38
Pwllpeiran and Trawsgoed
Veterinary Investigation Centre:
Aberystwyth 11
Bangor 10
Carmarthen 14
Directorate of Fisheries Research: 19
Fisheries Experimental Station, Conwy
Total staff 92 4
Number of units 5 9
Scotland
Central Veterinary Laboratory: 18
Lasswade
Torry Research Station, Aberdeen 112
Total staff 130 5
Number of units 2 3
1 As a percentage of national total.