HL Deb 02 February 1998 vol 585 c85WA
Lord Bassam of Brighton

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What progress has been made in appointing experts to support Lord Justice Phillips in the inquiry into the emergence of BSE and new variant CJD. [HL277]

Lord Donoughue

The Government have now appointed Mrs. June Bridgeman, CB, a retired senior civil servant and formerly deputy chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission to be the member of the inquiry with experience in public administration and Professor Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, Professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, as the scientific member of the inquiry.