§ Lord Lucasasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will place in the Library of the House copies of the protocols of the new-variant OD tonsil and appendix surveys currently under way and the data gathered to date. [HL2034]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath)Data from the tonsil and appendix surveys currently under way will, as they arise, be assessed at meetings of the joint Medical Research Council/Department of Health Steering Group for Studies of Detectable Abnormal Prion Protein. The department will in due course announce interim findings from the steering group's deliberations, and a copy of that announcement will be placed in the Library. Publication of the protocols and the detail of the study findings are matters for the researchers themselves.