EUROPE AND THE FUTURE OF BRITISH SCIENCE

That this House welcomes the 1991 Triennial Report of the Advisory Council on Science and Technology, and its conclusion that the United Kingdom needs to develop a vision of the opportunities which will arise in a more integrated Europe; regrets that science and technology have been much neglected components of the European debate; heartily endorses the Prime Minister's conclusion in his preface to the report that it will stimulate further debate on the direction and deployment of research and development resources; and therefore calls on the Leader of the House to provide an adequate and early opportunity for such a debate before irrevocable decisions are taken on the scale, direction and organisation of the nation's science.