HC Deb 25 November 1996 vol 286 cc114-5W
Mr. Deva

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which of the current research groups sponsored by his Department working on AIDS and cancer research contain qualified mathematicians in them. [4965]

Mr. Horam

The Department's policy research programme funds the clinical operational research unit at University college London, whose work includes the development and application of mathematical and statistical models and decision analysis related to clinical aspects of health care, including cancer. The majority of researchers within the unit are qualified mathematicians. The Department funds CORU by £210,000 per year.