HC Deb 21 February 1990 vol 167 c805W
Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has any plans to suspend the funding of the Medical Research Council.

Mr. Jackson

No.

Mrs. Ann Winterton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has concerning the amount of money spent by the Medical Research Council on the dissemination to Members of both Houses of Parliament of information concerning experimentation upon the human embryo.

Mr. Jackson

I understand that, since the beginning of 1989, the Medical Research Council spent a total of £3,530 in dissemination to Members of both Houses of Parliament of information concerning human fertilisation and embryology.