HC Deb 18 May 1981 vol 5 cc35-6W
Mr. Wigley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make special and urgent finances available to the extent of £250,000 in order to provide a nuclear magnetic resonance system for University College hospital, London, in order to analyse the chemical composition of the body and facilitate more rapid advance of research programmes into muscular dystrophy.

Sir George Young

No. The Department is supporting work on nuclear magnetic resonance imaging equipment at Hammersmith and Nottingham and it would not be feasible or appropriate to increase this effort at this time. The Medical Research Council is supporting other work on applications of nuclear magnetic resonance in medicine.