HC Deb 13 June 1991 vol 192 c640W
Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public money was given to(a) the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and (b) the Life care and housing trust for the last year for which figures are available.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The Department gives no money to either organisation.

Mr. Alton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has any proposals to issue guidelines on the use of the chorionic villus sampling test; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The use of chorion villus sampling is a matter of clinical judgment.