§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to the answer of 22 July, if he will take steps urgently to establish a system whereby information on the incidence of cot deaths amongst breast fed and non-breast fed babies is collected.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThis is a subject which is more properly a matter for research rather than routine data collection. There is a wide range of factors contributing to cot deaths, and in order to identify them a major multi-centre study into postnatal deaths, including cot deaths, has been commissioned by the Department.