Civil Scientific Research

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 March 1991.

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Photo of Mr Alan Howarth Mr Alan Howarth Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Education and Science) 12:00, 12 March 1991

The Labour party is itchy-fingered, as always. It wants a political strategy for science. It wants bureaucratic, political determination of the way in which resources devoted to science are spent. The Labour party's science strategy would be every bit as disastrous as its industrial strategy.