§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what action is being taken to keep under review the issues discussed in the Report of theAdvisory Panel of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (Nutrition) on Diet in relation to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease; and if she will make a statement;
(2) when she expects to receive the report on diet and coronary disease from the committee sitting under the auspices 379W of the Royal College of Physicians; if she will place a copy of the report in due course in the House of Commons Library; and if she will make a statement.
§ Dr. OwenDuring the year since the Report of the Advisory Panel was published my Department has kept the matter under review. So far no evidence has come to notice which would justify formal reopening of the subject. I understand that the Report of the Working Party of the Royal College of Physicians and the British Cardiac Society on Primary Prevention of Heart Disease is expected to be published in January 1976. I will arrange for a copy of the report to be placed in the Library. It will, of course, be fully considered as part of the continuing review, following the June 1974 Report of the Advisory Panel, to which I have referred.