HC Deb 04 May 1989 vol 152 c177W
Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the research being sponsored by his Department into transmissible encephalopathies.

Mr. Jackson

This Department is funding research on transmissible encephalopathies in animals, namely, on scrapie in sheep and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, at the AFRC Institute for Animal Health.