Written question asked by Andrew Mitchell (Conservative) on Monday, 23 June 2003, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 July 2003. It was answered by Hazel Blears (Labour) on Monday, 7 July 2003 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his Answer of 4th June to the honourable Member for Stoke-on-Trent North, 4 June 2003, 406 c462W, on TETRA, what funds have been allocated to the national health monitoring study of Airwave police users; and when he expects the study to report. - Inc figures and ref to http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs/tetra.html.

Answer: Mr. Andrew Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 4 June 2003, Official Report, column 462W, to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North (Ms Walley), on TETRA, what funds have been allocated to the national health monitoring study of Airwave police users; and when he expects the study to report. [121852] Ms Blears: £5 million has been allocated for the national health monitoring study of Airwave police users. This work includes two components: a long-term study to follow-up over 100,000 Airwave police users over 15 years, and a shorter-term detailed study of a small group of police officers. The detailed study will report after three years. The long-term study is statistical in nature and many years of data will be required to produce reliable results. An interim report will be available once five full years of data have been collected, some seven years from the start of the work. Regular updates on progress will be available on our website http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs/tetra.html.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 121852; 408 c648-9W;408 c645W
Session: 2002-03
Subjects: Finance Health hazards NHS Police Radiation exposure Radio Telecommunications Research TETRA
Contains statistics: Yes
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