HC Deb 11 December 2001 vol 376 c731W
23. Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions he has had with the WHO on the guarding of smallpox virus stocks. [19678]

Mr. Hutton

The Department is represented on an ad hoc Committee set up by the World Health Organisation to review scientific and technical aspects relating to smallpox. A report of this work is due to be considered by the World Health Assembly in May 2002.

These matters are kept under continuous review.