To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department is funding, or planning to fund, into the problems facing people who suffer from incontinence and the advice available to them.

The Department is currently funding a project which will draw together existing evidence on incontinence in six OPCS disability survey reports and relate this to previous United Kingdom research on incontinence and incontinence services. The project will also carry out additional analysis of the data on incontinence gathered during the surveys. A new project on the current and future roles of continence advisers is due to start in April 1991.