HC Deb 18 February 1994 vol 237 cc1044-5W
Ms Lynne

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the membership of the former independent scientific committee on smoking and health.

Mr. Sackville

The terms of appointment of the members of the independent scientific committee on smoking and health expired at the end of 1991. In the light of the strategy for health then being developed, and the fact that some of the functions of the committee had been superseded by the adoption of European Community directives on tar yield of cigarettes and the labelling of tobacco products, it was decided to review the range of scientific advice required on smoking issues. As a result of that assessment, a new scientific committee on tobacco and health was announced on 7 February 1994.

Ms Lynne

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the members of the scientific committee on tobacco and health, with their place of work and qualifications for appointment.

Mr. Sackville

Details of the scientific committee on smoking and health were announced on 7 February and the information is as follows:

MEMBERSHIP—SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON SMOKING AND HEALTH

Chairman

  • Professor David Poswillo, CBE DDS DSc MDhc FRC Path
  • Formerly Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,
  • Guy's Hospital, London

Members

  • Professor Richard Carter, MA DM DSc FRCPath
  • Department of Histopathology,
  • Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey
  • Dr. Godfrey Fowler, OBE BM FRCGP DCH DRCOG
  • Clinical Reader in General Practice and Honorary Director,
  • Imperial Cancer Research Fund General Practice Research
  • Group, Department of Public Health and Primary Care,
  • University of Oxford
  • Professor Roger Greenhalgh, MA MD MChir FRCS
  • Department of Surgery,
  • Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London
  • Dr. Marion Hall, MD FRCOG
  • Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist,
  • Aberdeen Royal Hospitals,
  • Aberdeen Maternity Hospital
  • Mr. Martin Jarvis, MPhil
  • Clinical Psychologist,
  • Imperial Cancer Research Fund Health Behaviour Unit,
  • National Addiction Centre,
  • Maudsley Hospital, London
  • Dr. Aidan Macfarlane, FRCP
  • Consultant Community Paediatrician,
  • Consultant in Public Health Medicine,
  • Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics,
  • Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
  • Professor David Marks, BSc PhD CPsychol FBPsS
  • Director of Health Research Centre,
  • Faculty of Social Science,
  • Middlesex University
  • Professor Anthony Newman-Taylor, OBE FRCP FFOM
  • Consultant Physician,
  • Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital,
  • London
  • Professor Richard Peto, FRS
  • Clinical Trial Service Unit and ICRF Cancer Studies Unit,
  • Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
  • Professor Nicholas Wald, MBBS DSc FRCP FFPHM
  • FRCOG
  • Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine,
  • Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine,
  • St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London

Ex-officio:

  • Dr. Eileen D. Rubery MB ChB PhD FRCR MRCPath
  • Head of Health Promotion (Medical) Division,
  • Department of Health, London

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