§ Mr. Eadieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the names of the standing medical advisory committee which is engaged in research projects associated with alcoholism; and when he expects it to report to him.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe two research projects mentioned by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Education in the House on 25th October were commissioned, not by the Standing Medical Advisory Committee but by my Department. They are being conducted by the Department of Psychology at Strathclyde University and by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. The results of both projects, one dealing with the attitudes to drinking amongst young people in Scotland, and the second, which is a survey on alcoholic drinking in Scotland, are expected in the Autumn of 1973.
A sub-committee of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee reported in 1965 on health services for the treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics. The services were again reviewed in 1971 by the sub-committee, and an article based on its findings was published in January, 1972, in the Chief Medical Officer's Health Bulletin, which is widely circulated among the doctors and social workers involved in the care and treatment of alcoholics.—[Vol. 843, c. 1179–81.]