§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give a breakdown by regional health authority area of the incidence of confirmed cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for each of the last 30 years.
§ Mr. Dorrell[holding answer 12 June 1990]: Accurate information on numbers of cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is not at present available. The study to be conducted by Dr. R. G. Will, with support from the Department of Health, will attempt to gather together this information from the recent past, as well as making arrangements to collect it in future.