§ Mr. Ron DaviesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the research being sponsored by his Department into transmissible encephalopathies.
§ Mr. FreemanThe Department of Health is not sponsoring any research in transmissible encephalopathies.
However, a committee has been set up by this Department and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the chairmanship of Dr. David Tyrrell to advise the Departments on research in progress or required on bovine spongiform encephalopathy and other transmissible encephalopathies.