§ Mr. Kennedyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make a statement on the findings of research into changes in the brain by demonstrable computer tomography, taking place in patients using benzodiazepine tranquillisers on a long-term basis.
§ Mr. BrookeI understand from the Medical Research Council, which receives its grant-in-aid from the Department, that the council is funding a research project entitled "Psychometric performance and neuroradiological measures in long-term benzodiazenpine users" at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. This work is still in progress. Analysis of the results will be undertaken at or about the end of 1985.