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Mr. Cousins
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he last met the chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council to discuss the funding of scientific research; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Alan Howarth
My right hon. and learned Friend occasionally meets the chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council. I have met Sir Mark Richmond twice recently when the funding of scientific research was among the issues discussed.