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Business of the House

May I draw my right hon. Friend’s attention to early-day motion 1654, which deals with the siting of three mobile phone masts outside St. Joseph’s Catholic church in Evington? [That this House notes with concern the construction of three telecommunication masts outside St. Joseph’s Church, Leicester; calls on the companies building telecommunication masts to work together to reduce the number requiring construction; acknowledges that since the Stewart Report, published over five years ago, there have been significant advances and changes to mobile telecommunications technology; urges the Government to commission further research into the effects on health of telecommunications masts; and calls on the Government to carry out further consultations.] As a result of that decision, the church is to lose the possibility of having a children’s nursery because parents are very concerned about the effects on their children’s health of having those masts so close to the church and its hall. Can we have a debate on the Stewart report and consider introducing guidelines so that mobile phone operators are able to share one site and mast, rather than creating three?