§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Minister of Overseas Development if she will make a further statement on the developments in the research at Harwell on a cold chain for poliomyelitis vaccine, measles vaccine and vaccines used in animal husbandry.
§ Mr. TomlinsonThe Atomic Energy Research Establishment, working in close liaison with the World Health Organisation, has just completed a feasibility study to consider the best pattern for the design and operation of an improved portable refrigerated vaccine container. Equipment necessary for testing vaccine containers has been built, and this will allow experimental work on prototype containers to be undertaken once my advisers have considered the proposals in the study and made their recommendations.