HC Deb 30 July 1998 vol 317 c454W
Mr. Frank Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when a new Head of the Gulf Veteran's Medical Assessment Programme will be appointed. [54620]

Mr. Doug Henderson

Following an open competition we have now appointed Professor Harry Lee to be the Head of the Gulf Veterans' Medical Assessment Programme (MAP). Professor Lee has had a distinguished medical and academic career specialising in general medicine, renal medicine and infectious diseases. He is scheduled to take up his post at the MAP on 1 September.