§ Mr. Nealeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what stage the investigations of the National Health Service have reached in establishing whether the brain damage suffered by Luke Platten of "Lucombe", 10 Rainy Fields, Padstow, Cornwall was caused by measles vaccine injections; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI am advised that no request to investigate the possibility of Luke Platten having suffered brain damage attributable to measles vaccine has been received either by the Cornwall district health authority or the vaccine damage payments unit at Norcross. The possibility was raised in correspondence some time ago, but the vaccine damage claim form seems never to have been returned by the family.