From Sir MARK RICHMOND
It is not true that the SERC Council was told at its meeting on 17 July
that ‘the government has given the Science and Engineering Research Council
£10 million to close the laboratory’; and that is even the case if
your correspondent meant the Nuclear Structure Facility and not the Daresbury
Laboratory (This Week, 27 July). Among the sums allocated to the SERC from
the Advisory Board for the Research Councils’ flexibility margin is a total
of £10 million over two years from 1 April 1992 for the support of
grants and studentships in the Science and Engineering Board sectors of
the council’s work.
Sir Mark Richmond Science and Engineering Research Council Swindon,
Wiltshire
