Mr. Michael J. FosterTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 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. [25619]
Dr. John CunninghamThe Government have now appointed Mrs. June Bridgeman CB, a retired senior civil servant and formerly Deputy Chair of the Equal98W 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.