Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research is currently being commissioned by his Department into tuberculosis. [155017]

Dr Poulter, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health: The Department is funding a wide range of research on tuberculosis through the National Institute for Health Research and the Policy Research Programme and has no current calls for proposals for research on specific aspects of this disease.

Current research includes a £2 million programme of research on improving the management and control of tuberculosis among hard to reach groups, and a £1.7 million study of interferon gamma tests for the rapid identification of active tuberculosis disease.

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