If HMGovt have studied the research by Workman and Cunningham, Shader, DiMascio and others, and Rosenbaum, Woods, Groves and Klerman which shows that prisoners and mental health patients are more likely to behave in a hostile or aggressive manner after being prescribed psychotropic drugs than before.

If HMGovt have studied the research by Workman and Cunningham, Shader, DiMascio and others, and Rosenbaum, Woods, Groves and Klerman which shows that prisoners and mental health patients are more likely to behave in a hostile or aggressive manner after being prescribed psychotropic drugs than before.

Further to recent evaluation by DH of village communities for mentally handicapped people, if they will now encourage local authorities and services to support and develop such communities when requested to do so by the families of the people concerned. - Includes ref to letter from Parliamentary Sec (Mr Bowis)...

Further to recent evaluation by DH of village communities for mentally handicapped people, if they will now encourage local authorities and services to support and develop such communities when requested to do so by the families of the people concerned. - Includes ref to letter from Parliamentary Sec (Mr Bowis)...

Statement on how many outline research proposals were received for the epidemiology programme to be initiated by the Medical Research Council at the request of the Ministry of Defence; what proposals in other fields besides epidemiology have been received by the MRC; if there is a deadline; and how much...

Statement on how many outline research proposals were received for the epidemiology programme to be initiated by the Medical Research Council at the request of the Ministry of Defence; what proposals in other fields besides epidemiology have been received by the MRC; if there is a deadline; and how much...

To list the activities and state the cost of European Union programmes to discourage the use of tobacco. - Including figure.

To list the activities and state the cost of European Union programmes to discourage the use of tobacco. - Including figure.

Whether there is any evidence that overwork is damaging to health; and whether there is any evidence that overwork improves health.

Whether there is any evidence that overwork is damaging to health; and whether there is any evidence that overwork improves health.

Whether they will give an undertaking that any future Mental Incapacity Bill will not make provision allowing medical experiments to be carried out on incapacitated people who cannot give valid consent.

Whether they will give an undertaking that any future Mental Incapacity Bill will not make provision allowing medical experiments to be carried out on incapacitated people who cannot give valid consent.

To contact Gulf veterans organisations and legal advisers to establish incidence of cancer in veterans. If HMGovt intend to initiate research into incidence of cancer in military personnel and MOD employees; and if so, if they will involve research institutes with specialised epidemiological knowledge and interest in this area.

To contact Gulf veterans organisations and legal advisers to establish incidence of cancer in veterans. If HMGovt intend to initiate research into incidence of cancer in military personnel and MOD employees; and if so, if they will involve research institutes with specialised epidemiological knowledge and interest in this area.

Whether HMG endorse the objection made by the German Government to the new Council of Europe Convention on Bioethics, relating to the proposal for substituted consent contained in the Convention in Article 6, paragraph 2.

Whether HMG endorse the objection made by the German Government to the new Council of Europe Convention on Bioethics, relating to the proposal for substituted consent contained in the Convention in Article 6, paragraph 2.

Whether HMG have received a copy of any petition against the new Council of Europe Convention on Bioethics; and if so; what is their response. - There is no record of such a petition have been received.

Whether HMG have received a copy of any petition against the new Council of Europe Convention on Bioethics; and if so; what is their response. - There is no record of such a petition have been received.

What evidence HMGovt would consider is necessary to demonstrate that 'new strain' cases of CJD are not linked with BSE.

What evidence HMGovt would consider is necessary to demonstrate that 'new strain' cases of CJD are not linked with BSE.

What have been findings of CJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh of comparison between cases of CJD in young people in UK and those in France, Germany, Italy and Netherlands.

What have been findings of CJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh of comparison between cases of CJD in young people in UK and those in France, Germany, Italy and Netherlands.

Whether the current strain typing tests for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are sufficiently sensitive and discriminatory to determine that apparently similar diseases appearing the same or difference species are unequivocally of the same origin.

Whether the current strain typing tests for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are sufficiently sensitive and discriminatory to determine that apparently similar diseases appearing the same or difference species are unequivocally of the same origin.

Whether HMG are aware of the work BEC Schreuder et al in the Netherlands on the pre-clinical diagnosis of scrapie in sheep, and whether they will conduct tests to ascertain the effectiveness of their methods for the early detection of BSE in cattle and CJD in humans.

Whether HMG are aware of the work BEC Schreuder et al in the Netherlands on the pre-clinical diagnosis of scrapie in sheep, and whether they will conduct tests to ascertain the effectiveness of their methods for the early detection of BSE in cattle and CJD in humans.

Whether HMG consider that diagnosis of CJD would still have been made in young people suffering neuro-degenerative disease, without the classic clinical signs of the disease as defined by Bell and Ironside in 1993, prior to the BSE publicity, and "... especially in view of the massive decline in hospital...

Whether HMG consider that diagnosis of CJD would still have been made in young people suffering neuro-degenerative disease, without the classic clinical signs of the disease as defined by Bell and Ironside in 1993, prior to the BSE publicity, and "... especially in view of the massive decline in hospital...

Why, in the absence of a scientificaly based cause for "sporadic CJD", they appear to accept the proposition of a causal link between the previously unrecognised and consistent disease pattern of CJD found in 10 young patients and exposure to BSE before the bovine offal ban was introduced in 1989,in...

Why, in the absence of a scientificaly based cause for "sporadic CJD", they appear to accept the proposition of a causal link between the previously unrecognised and consistent disease pattern of CJD found in 10 young patients and exposure to BSE before the bovine offal ban was introduced in 1989,in...

What measures have been taken to compare post-mortem findings in the 10 cases cited by the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee with post-mortem findings in reported cases of CJD in young people in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands since 1993.

What measures have been taken to compare post-mortem findings in the 10 cases cited by the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee with post-mortem findings in reported cases of CJD in young people in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands since 1993.