HC Deb 16 October 2003 vol 411 cc343-4W
Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent research the Government have commissioned into the impact on anti-social behaviour of provision of dietary supplements of vitamins and minerals. [130058]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The Medical Research Council (MRC) has not recently funded any research into the impact of dietary supplements of vitamins and minerals on anti-social behaviour. However, the MRC does have a nutrition portfolio and spent £17 million in 2001–02. The MRC always welcomes high quality applications for support into any aspect of human health and these are judged in open competition with other demands on funding.