§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the membership of the body advising the Government on bovine spongiform encephalopathy; and how its composition is determined. [22967]
§ Mrs. BrowningThe members of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee are:
Chairman:
- Professor J. R. Pattison—Professor of Medical Microbiology and Dean of the University College, London Medical School
Deputy Chairman:
- Dr. R. G. Will—Consultant Neurologist and Head of the National CJD Surveillance Unit
Members:
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- Professor Ingrid Allen—Professor of Neuropathology at the Queen's University of Belfast
- Professor J. W. Almond—A Virologist and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Reading
- Mr. R. Bradley CBE—A Veterinary Pathologist and Chairman of the BSE sub-group of the EC Scientific Veterinary Committee
- Professor F. Brown FRS—Deputy Director (Scientific) of the Animal Virus Research Institute, Long Island, New York, USA
- Professor J. Collinge—A Clinical Neurologist and head of the Prion Diseases Group at St. Mary's Hospital, London
- Dr. W. D. Hueston—Veterinary Epidemiologist, United States Department of Agriculture
- Dr. R. H. Kimberlin—Independent Consultant on Scrapie and related diseases
- Dr. M. Painter—A Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, City of Manchester
- Dr. D. B. Pepper—Private Veterinary Surgeon
- Professor P. G. Smith—An Epidemiologist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Dr. W. A. Watson—Former Director of the Central Veterinary Laboratory.
The committee was set up in 1990 to advise the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Department of Health on matters relating to spongiform encephalopathies. The membership of the committee is chosen to provide expertise on a wide range of BSE-related topics.