asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will provide figures for the number of annual recorded cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in other member countries of the EC, with a breakdown by age group of those affected.

Since 1993, the European Community has funded a project to co-ordinate the surveillance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in those European countries with existing or proposed national CJD surveillance programmes—i.e. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. This project is co-ordinated by the National CJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh. The data collected for 1993 and 1994 were published in the National CJD Surveillance Unit's Fourth Annual Report (August 1995), copies of which are available in the Library. The 1995 figures are not yet available. The incidence of CJD in the UK is similar to that in the other European countries taking part in the project.