HC Deb 17 October 1975 vol 897 cc844-5W
Mrs. Joyce Butler

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will list in the Official Report the names and professions of the members of her Working Party on Oral Contraceptives.

Dr. Owen

This Joint Working Group was set up by the Central Health Services Council, the Medicines Commission and the Committee on Safety of Medicines on the invitation of my right hon. Friend and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. The group's membership was drawn from each of the Standing Medical, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Advisory Committees, from lay members of the council, the Medicines Commission and the Committee on Safety of Medicines. Its recommendations will be to the council, the Medicines Commission and the Committee on Safety of Medicines which will each consider them and convey their conclusions to my right hon. Friends.

Following are members of the Working Group on Oral Contraceptives:

The Baroness Robson of Kiddington (Chairman) lay member of Central Health Services Council.

K. J. P. Barraclough, Esq., Metropolitan Magistrate [Until 30-9-75, not yet replaced].

Miss E. R. D. Bendall, State registered Nurse.

Professor Sir Stanley Clayton, Professor of Obstetrics, King's College Hospital.

W. M. Darling, Esq., retail pharmacist.

G. T. M. David, Esq., retail pharmacist.

Miss M. Davis, State Registered Nurse, State Certified Midwife.

Professor Sir Richard Doll, Regius Professor of Medicines, Oxford University.

Miss P. Greening, State Registered Nurse, State Certified Midwife.

Mrs. E. J. M. Leigh, retail pharmacist.

Dr. G. M. Morris, general practitioner.

Dr. G. Murray Jones, general practitioner.

Mrs. J. G. Page, lay member of Central Health Services Council.

Professor J. S. Scott, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Leeds.

Professor Sir Eric Scowen, Professor of Medicine, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Professor G. M. Wilson, Regius Professor of Medicine, Western Infirmary, Glasgow.