§ Lord Morris of Manchesterasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they expect to be able to announce the outcome of their consideration of the application for funding made by Gordon Muir of Kings College Hospital for further research into differences in the rates of both incidence and mortality from prostate cancer in differing racial groups. [HL2120]
§ Lord Hunt of Kings HeathThe Department of Health has agreed in principle to fund a research proposal entitledProstate Cancer in Ethnic Subgroups (PROCESS): A comparative study of incidence, clinical presentation and access to health care in the UK. The principal investigator for the proposed research is Dr Ben-Shlomo of the University of Bristol. Dr Gordon Muir of King's College Hosptial is a named collaborator on the research proposal. The department recently considered the researchers' responses to scientific comments made by the external peer reviewers of the research proposal and invited the researchers to expand the proposal to include some pilot work for a possible prospective study. The department is currently awaiting an expanded research proposal from the researchers.