The General Medical Council (GMC), which is responsible for licensing doctors and supervising medical ethics in the UK, investigated the affair.[76] The GMC brought the case itself, not citing any specific complaints, claiming that an investigation was in the public interest. The then-secretary of state for health, John Reid MP, called for a GMC investigation, an investigation Wakefield seems himself to have wished.[77] During a debate in the House of Commons, on 15 Mar 2004, Dr. Evan Harris,[78] a Liberal Democrat MP, called for a judicial inquiry into the ethical aspects of the case, even suggesting it might be conducted by the CPS.[79] In June 2006 the GMC confirmed that they would hold a disciplinary hearing of Wakefield.