§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he expects to be able to publish the result of the investigations into child nutrition at present being carried out by his chief medical officer's committee on the medical aspects of nutrition.
§ Mr. CrossmanSeveral investigations have been completed or are under way. As regards pre-school children, the report of a Pilot Survey of the Nutrition of Young Children was published in 1968; an interim report of the Panel on Child Nutrition, dealing with Vitamin D, is now being printed; and the field work of a full-scale survey of the nutrition of pre-school children has now been completed. The results of this will be published when analysed. As regards schoolchildren, I would refer my hon. Friend to the Answer which the Under-Secretary of State gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar (Mr. Mikardo) on 11th February.—[Vol. 777, c.279.]