§ Mr. Michael Marshallasked the secretary of state for Social Services what way he intends to make savings of £4 million in the NHS drugs bill.
142Winvestigation are in progress at the MRC Brain Metabolism Unit and in the Division of Molecular Pharmacology at the national Institute of Medical Research. Work on the disease also forms part of a programme of research on the effects of age and disease on the human brain at the Institute of Human Psychiatry in London supported by a grant from the Council.
University medical schools are also promoting research in the neurological field such as the Project on incidence and family distiribution of Huntington's chorea at the Department of community Medicine at Edinburgh University.
The disease is a hereditary one, of course, and its occurrence in one member of a family as a whole.
My department is supporting investigations in several parts of the country in south Wales for instance, and also in East Anglia, into the genetic aspects of the disease, its early detection and its social consequences.