The Committee deliberated.

 Draft Report (The Government's Expenditure on Research and Development: The Forward Look), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read the first time.

 Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 134 read and agreed to.

 Ordered, That a list of abbreviations be annexed to the Report. — (The Chairman.)

 Resolved, That the Report be the Fifth Report of the Committee to the House.

 Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

 Ordered, That the provisions of Standing Order No. 134 (Select committees (reports)) be applied to the Report.

Several papers were ordered to be appended to the Minutes of Evidence.

 Ordered, That the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee be reported to the House. — (The Chairman.)

A paper was ordered to be reported to the House.

The Committee further deliberated.

  [Adjourned till Monday 10th April at twenty minutes past Five o'clock.