§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the names of the three physicians visiting the Ear Research Institute in Los Angeles on behalf of his Department to examine research in cochlear implants; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Alfred MorrisI am grateful to Mr. Morrison, consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to Mr. J. C. Ballantyne, consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon and chairman of my Department's Advisory Committee on Services for Hearing Impaired People, and to Doctor E. F. Evans, Reader in the Department of Communication at the University of Keele, for agreeing to visit centres in California and Washington in the United States where research on artificial auditory stimulation is in progress. Mr. Morrison and his colleagues have been given a wide brief to study and report on the present state of knowledge734W in artificial auditory stimulation techniques and their potential for people with profound sensory neural hearing loss. The team is due to return on the 27th October and I shall be giving careful study to its report.