SCIENTISTS should take over the Health Protection Agency’s facility at Porton Down and run it as a co-operative, says Salisbury’s MP John Glen.
He has written to Health Department Minister Ann Milton arguing the case for keeping the centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response where it is and saving the jobs of all 800 people who depend on it.
He told her a survey suggested that three-quarters of CEPR staff would not move to Harlow in Essex, where the HPA board wants to relocate a large part of the organisation.
* For an in-depth report see the June 17 edition of the Salisbury Journal.
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