HC Deb 27 January 2000 vol 343 c287W
37. Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to make an announcement on the location of the new synchrotron. [105787]

Ms Hewitt

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in his reply to Parliamentary Question 99739, dated 25 November 1999,Official Report, column 164W, said that he would make a final decision as to the location of the new synchrotron in the light of all the evidence and announce it by mid January. He is currently evaluating all the information available and will be making the announcement in the near future.