Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 12 Mawrth 1970.
I know that the hon. Member is concerned about this. He has put six Questions on it already, and I have answered them. We have to decide what is the most cost-effective way of using our technical and scientific resources. We do not believe that the programme we inherited of very great expenditure for prestige efforts in space is the best way of using our technological resources. That is why we have not followed up some of the proposals of the Opposition, including some to which we were committed regardless of cost. The British delegate under the control of hon. Members opposite insisted that a proposal to put a cost limit on E.L.D.O. should be abandoned and Britain committed to vast expenditure which yielded no return.