HC Deb 05 July 1988 vol 136 c500W
Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether his Department or the Medical Research Council were in any way involved in the provision of material for use in or financing for recent operations at the Midland Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology which involved the use of foetal tissue in transplant operations as treatment for Parkinson's disease; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Jackson

Neither the Department nor the Medical Research Council was involved in any way with these recent operations at the Midland Centre for Neurosurgery. Both the Department and the M RC are keeping in touch with developments concerning this research.