§ Mrs. Renee Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East on 30 November, Official Report column 33, if he will study the work being carried out by Professor Edward Evans of Keele university into the treatment for deafness by direct electronic stimulus of the nerve cells; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergProfessor Evans was co-author with Mr. Ballantyne and Mr. A. W. Morrison, FRCS, of the report mentioned in the earlier reply to which312W the hon. Member refers. His work is, I am sure, well known to otologists concerned with the treatment of profound deafness.