§ Ms CorstonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what progress her Department is making in arrangements for a final clinical trial of the HDA test for cervical cancer;
(2) which regional health authority was requested by her Department to fund the final clinical trials into the HDA test for cervical cancer.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe Department is not involved in making arrangements for a clinical trial into the HDA test, and has not requested any regional health authority to fund the trial.
697WAny evaluation of the test would be between Quest and the medical scientific community to arrange. Decisions on the use of regional research and development resources is for local determination.