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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he will announce the (a) location and (b) commencement date of the proposed pilot project to install radioactivity monitors at a British port. - (Holding answer 4 March 2002).

Asked by

David Lidington (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 November 2002

Reference

38590; 392 c108W;392 c112W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the regulatory burdens that would arise from the implementation of European Commission Draft Instrument 7396/02, dated 21st March 2002, concerning the control of high-activity sealed sources; and if she will place a...

Asked by

Llew Smith (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 October 2002

Reference

390 c584W;390 c585-6W; 73553

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what regulations cover radioactively contaminated land (a) owned and (b) managed by his Department.

Asked by

Llew Smith (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 June 2002

Reference

387 c200W;387 c201W; 61965

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent studies have been conducted by (a) his Department, (b) non-departmental public bodies responsible to his Department and (c) consultants on behalf of his Department into the clean up of (i) radioactively contaminated land and (ii) land contaminated by non radioactive...

Asked by

Llew Smith (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 June 2002

Reference

61963; 387 c200-1W;387 c201W

House

House of Commons

Bach, Lord

Lords Statement on what plans the Ministry of Defence has for further research into depleted uranium. [HL 3298]. - Includes fact that we propose to carry out a programme of further research and full details of our proposals have been placed in Library.

Asked by

Baroness David (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 March 2002

Reference

HL 3298; 632 c112-3WA

House

House of Lords

Ministry of Defence

Statement on what plans his Department has for further research into depleted uranium; and if he will make a statement. - Inc fact that details of proposals in Library. (Dep 02/575).

Asked by

Clive Efford (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

13 March 2002

For answer on

14 March 2002

Answered on

14 March 2002

Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans his Department has for further research into depleted uranium; and if he will make a statement. [44012] Dr. Moonie: The Ministry of Defence has funded extensive research into DU munitions over many years. This work has been complemented by studies on the health and environmental consequences of the testing, development and battlefield use of DU munitions carried out by a range of governmental and non-governmental bodies in the UK and overseas. These studies, and the Royal Society's report, all indicate that the health risks associated with the battlefield use of DU are minimal, other than in a small number of very specific circumstances. Nevertheless, there are a number of areas where we believe that further research is desirable to enhance the database on which to make judgments weighing the potential loss of life arising from not using DU munitions in battle against any potential longer term impact on human health and the environment resulting from its use. Some research will aid MOD in any future test-range decommissioning. We therefore propose to carry out a programme of further research, which has been reviewed by the Royal Society, the Medical Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council. We have given veterans' representatives early sight of the programme. The full details of our proposals have been placed in the Library of the House. They have also been published on the MOD's website. Much of the work is in line with the recommendations of the Royal Society's report. In particular, we propose to conduct an epidemiological study to identify any links between exposure to DU and ill health, and a critical review of literature relating to the effects of DU inhalation on the pulmonary lymph nodes. We also intend to study the ways in which DU is transported from the point of introduction into the environment to the point at which it has the potential to affect the health of plant, animal or human life. Furthermore, we have already begun research into the corrosion and dissolution rates of DU in typical corrosion environments and in controlled laboratory studies. We intend to consider a range of soil types and profiles and marine environments in this work. In addition, we propose to carry out research into the operational role of DU munitions and consider alternative penetrator materials. We aim to conduct a radiochemical analysis of DU rounds and examine contamination in the barrels used to fire DU round. Further to this, we aim to review and address work being conducted by others on biokinetic modelling related to uranic materials. These research activities are in addition to work that MOD is already undertaking. We have set up the independent Depleted Uranium Oversight Board, which includes independent members of the scientific community and veterans' representatives as well as MOD staff and is now overseeing the programme of work to devise a valid test for uranium isotopes in urine and a methodology for a voluntary DU screening programme for Balkans and Gulf veterans. We are developing our policy of biological monitoring for DU for troops on operations. We are also collecting data on the levels of DU in environmental samples in Kosovo. Annual surveys are already in progress at UK ranges where DU has been fired. It will be necessary to set priorities for funding each of the proposals, and re-assess their relevance and content as the research progresses.

Date

14 March 2002

Reference

44012; 381 c1177-8W;381 c1179-80W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the levels of radioactive contamination are around UK nuclear plants; and what the best safety distance is. - Inc figures and ref to "Radioactivity in the Environment Report for 2000".

Asked by

Jimmy Wray (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

18 December 2001

For answer on

6 February 2002

Answered on

6 February 2002

Mr. Wray: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the levels of radioactive contamination are around UK nuclear plants; and what the best safety distance is. [25249] Mr. Meacher: There is no simple, direct relationship between the dose arising from any radioactive discharges from UK nuclear plants and proximity to them. All radioactive discharges from UK nuclear plants are well within the national and international limit of 1 millisievert a year. In setting discharge limits, the Environment Agency has to be sure that no one would be exposed to a dose from man-made sources of ionising radiation greater than this. (There are separate dose limits for a single site and for a single new source of ionising radiation of 0.5 and 0.3 millisieverts respectively). There are no cases in the UK where any of these limits are breached. In all cases the most exposed members of the public receive a dose which is considerably below the appropriate limit. The Environment Agency has recently published its report "Radioactivity in the Environment Report for 2000". This is the latest in a series of such reports and contains a summary and radiological assessment of the agency's monitoring programmes. The principal conclusions were that discharges of radioactivity into the environment reported by the operators of the major sites during 2000 were well below the authorised discharge levels; concentrations of radionuclides in water, sediment, soil and grass were broadly similar to those in previous years; activity concentrations in air, rain, and sources of drinking water remained low during 2000; and all the estimated doses from radionuclides in sediment, soil and water were below the public dose limit and in many cases the estimated doses were much less than 1 per cent. of the dose limit.

Date

6 February 2002

Reference

25249; 379 c993-4W;379 c989-90W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what efforts her Department has made to monitor the (a) condition and (b) safety of the radioactive waste dumped approximately 250 miles out of Land's End during the 1960s and 1970s. - Includes figures and ref to OSPAR Conventions Quality...

Asked by

Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 January 2002

For answer on

6 February 2002

Answered on

6 February 2002

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what efforts her Department has made to monitor the (a) condition and (b) safety of the radioactive waste dumped approximately 250 miles out of Land's End during the 1960s and 1970s. [27192] Mr. Meacher: I have been asked to reply. Results obtained under the OECD's Co-ordinated Research and Environmental Surveillance Programme (CRESP) related to sea disposal of radioactive wastes have demonstrated that the radiological impacts on human and oceanic populations emanating from the north-east Atlantic dumpsites are exceedingly small compared to the natural background levels, and are likely to remain so. This view was reiterated in the OSPAR Convention's Quality Status Report 2000, copies of which are available in the Library of the House. CRESP reported that the peak critical group individual dose as a result of sea dumping of solid radioactive waste would be 0.00002 millisieverts per annum, compared with 2 millisieverts per annum derived from natural radionuclides. The critical group is the hypothetical group of individuals who are calculated to be most exposed to the source of radioactivity being assessed--in this case coastal consumers of very large quantities of fish, crustaceans and molluscs (approximately 220 kg/year of fish, 37 kg/year of crustaceans and 37 kg/year of molluscs). The peak doses were calculated to occur approximately 200 years after dumping, by which time some of the activity would have leached from the disposal site and dispersed through the ocean. The Government fund extensive environmental monitoring of the waters around the UK, and this has not detected any adverse effects which could be attributed to radioactivity from Atlantic disposal sites. The monitoring shows that doses to critical groups from man-made sources of radioactivity are very small, and considerably less than doses due to natural background levels of radioactivity. In view of this, we have no plans to undertake any direct monitoring of the north Atlantic disposal sites.

Date

6 February 2002

Reference

27192; 379 c974-5W;379 c970W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what estimate she has made of the minimum length of time the isotopes deposited west of Land's End in the 1960s and 1970s will remain radioactive. - Including ref to Report of the Independent Review of Disposal of Radioactive Waste...

Asked by

Andrew George (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 January 2002

Reference

378 c880W; 27190

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent measurements have been taken of levels of radioactivity in (a) water and (b) air at the Rolls Royce waste disposal site at Crich, Derbyshire. - (Holding answer 16 July 2001).

Asked by

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 July 2001

Reference

4304; 372 c294-5W

House

House of Commons

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