§ Mr. Anthony CoombsTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what research his Department has undertaken concerning the relationship between the use of pesticides and the incidence of atopic illness.
§ Mr. WaldegraveNone. Neither the Agricultural and Food Research Council nor the Medical Research Council, which receives its grant-in-aid through my office, are supporting any research projects specifically on the relationship between the use of pesticides and the incidence of atopic illness.
The research councils are always ready to consider, in competition with other applications, soundly based research proposals.