Oral Answers to Questions — Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 January 1964.
Dr Jeremy Bray
, Middlesbrough West
12:00,
28 January 1964
asked the Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science whether he will now work out a national strategy of applied research to guide the allocation of public funds to research.
Mr Quintin Hogg
, St Marylebone
No, Sir. I would refer the hon. Member to Chapters III IV and V of the Report of the Zuckerman Committee on the Management and Control of Research and Development, and to paragraphs 103 to 107 of the Report of the Trend Committee, which suggest a somewhat different approach.
Dr Jeremy Bray
, Middlesbrough West
Is the Minister aware that the lack of sense of direction which he shows in his attitude to medical research is such as to cause dismay and confusion in the world of technology, and that the abject state of the country's aviation industry results directly from his lack of giving any sense of direction to industry as a whole on matters of technology?
Mr Quintin Hogg
, St Marylebone
I am grateful to the hon. Member for his courteous supplementary question. It enables me to say that I thought his original Question was a particularly silly one.
Ministers make up the Government and almost all are members of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. There are three main types of Minister. Departmental Ministers are in charge of Government Departments. The Government is divided into different Departments which have responsibilities for different areas. For example the Treasury is in charge of Government spending. Departmental Ministers in the Cabinet are generally called 'Secretary of State' but some have special titles such as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ministers of State and Junior Ministers assist the ministers in charge of the department. They normally have responsibility for a particular area within the department and are sometimes given a title that reflects this - for example Minister of Transport.
