§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the progress of the work of the Institute of Hearing Research.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneA pilot study is being undertaken at the Glasgow and Southampton outstations of the institute of Hearing Research, and to a lesser extent at the Nottingham and Cardiff outstations, to explore the feasibility of the large epidemiological study of hearing impairment to which I referred in my answer to a question by the right hon. Member on 25 July 1979. In addition, clinical studies of tinnitus have now begun, and information about the prevalence of this condition in the population will be provided by the proposed epidemiological survey of hearing impairment.—[Vol. 971, c.276.]