§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will review the study presented to the American Association of Immunologists and Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Conference in San Francisco in May by Dr. V. K. Singh on autism and the MMR Vaccine. [48835]
§ Ms JowellThe Department is aware of an abstract by a Dr. V. K. Singh which was sent to the annual meeting of the American Association of Immunologists and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and others which was held in San Francisco in April 1998.
The United Kingdom health departments are advised on immunisation matters by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, an independent expert group. Dr. Singh's abstract will be considered by the Committee along with other published work in this area when they next meet.