HC Deb 21 June 1988 vol 135 cc545-6W
Mrs. Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if any members of the virus reference laboratory of the public health laboratory services are now or have at any time been employed as consultants by Burroughs Wellcome.

Mr. Newton

I am advised that to the best of the knowledge of the public health laboratory service no member of the staff of the PEELS virus reference laboratory has ever been employed by or received payments from Burroughs Wellcome.