§ Miss Maynardasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the members of the advisory committee on pesticides.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneThe information is as follows:
Department to research into this complaint; whether he has any proposals to increasing the research programme; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneI refer my hon. Friend to my reply to a question by the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South 809W (Mr. Ashley), on 19 December 1970. The research into Huntington's chorea which I described in that reply continues. My Department makes an annual grant-in-aid from the science budget to the Medical Research Council, which has responsibility for the spending of its funds. No part of the Council's grant-in-aid is earmarked by my Department for research into any specific complaint. The Medical Research Council is, however, always willing to consider soundly-based research proposals for support.