§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the relationship between the rate of incidence of multiple sclerosis in health authority areas and the likelihood of sufferers being prescribed beta-interferon. [34996]
§ Mr. MaloneNone. Data on the incidence of multiple sclerosis by health authority region are not available centrally. Decisions about prescribing beta-interferon in individual cases are for the clinical judgment of the doctor concerned.