§ Mr. Freesonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if, pursuant to his reply to the right hon. Member for Brent, East on 3 April, Official Report, column 654, he will make it his policy to fund research into dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.
§ Mrs. CurrieWe are always willing to consider proposals for research, although, as I indicated in my 113W earlier reply, the main Government agency for the funding of biomedical research in the United Kingdom is the Medical Research Council.