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Legislative stage
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Type
Public acts
Legislation
Health Protection Agency Bill (HL) 2003/04; Health Protection Agency Act 2004
Subjects
Disclosure of information; Conditions of employment; Data protection; Armed forces; Animals; Chemical and biological warfare; Costs; Cooperation; Devolution; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Chemicals; Blood; Employment; Health; Hospitals; Finance; ICT; Health Protection Agency; Health hazards; Drugs; Environmental health; Functions; Disease control; Hygiene; Infectious diseases; Food; International cooperation; HIV/AIDS; Health education; Emergencies; Emergency services; Hepatitis; NHS; Patients; Northern Ireland; Protection; Powers; Membership; Public appointments; Public interest; Property transfer; Planning; Radiation; National Radiological Protection Board; Nuclear weapons; Radiation exposure; Management; Radioactive waste; Medical records; Primary care trusts; Staff; Non-departmental public bodies; Public Health Laboratory Service; MRSA; Microbiology; Scotland; Standards; Terrorism; Safety; Wales; Research; Vaccination; Reviews; Sexually transmitted infections; Tuberculosis; SARS; Commissioner for Public Appointments; Zoonoses; National Public Health Service for Wales; Civil contingency reaction forces; Radium
Date
22 July 2004
Reference
CHAP 17 2004
Health Protection Agency Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion agreed to on division (230 to 36). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal).
Health Protection Agency Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion agreed to on division (230 to 36). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal).
Lead member
Melanie Johnson
Answering member
Lord Lansley
Department
Department of Health
Type
Debates on bills
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions; Money resolutions
Legislation
Health Protection Agency Bill (HL) 2003/04
Subjects
ICT; Disclosure of information; Armed forces; Chemical and biological warfare; Costs; Cooperation; Devolution; Chemicals; Health; Hospitals; Finance; Health Protection Agency; Health hazards; Drugs; Functions; Disease control; Hygiene; Infectious diseases; International cooperation; HIV/AIDS; Emergencies; Emergency services; Hepatitis; NHS; Protection; Powers; Planning; Radiation; National Radiological Protection Board; Nuclear weapons; Radiation exposure; Radioactive waste; Primary care trusts; Non-departmental public bodies; Safety; SARS; Public Health Laboratory Service; MRSA; Microbiology; Terrorism; Reviews; Sexually transmitted infections; Tuberculosis; Zoonoses; Civil contingency reaction forces; Radium
Date
21 June 2004
Reference
422 c1097-152
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Statement on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. - Inc ref to 297 c158-60W, 1 July 1997. (DEP/3 5302).
Statement on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. - Inc ref to 297 c158-60W, 1 July 1997. (DEP/3 5302).
Asked by
Norman A Godman
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Rooker
(Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
For answer on
30 July 1997
Answered on
30 July 1997
Mr. Godman: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the dumping of radioactive waste
at sea. [12069]
Mr. Rooker: My Department and others concerned with the disposal of radioactive waste have undertaken detailed searches of archive
records relating to dumping at sea at Beaufort's Dyke and elsewhere. Details of the searches carried out so far and the findings of
each Department have been placed in the Library of the House.
Information was found of two further instances of radioactive waste being dumped, or possibly being dumped, in Beaufort's Dyke in
addition to that reported to the House on 1 July, Official Report, columns 158-160. The first instance was identified by the
Scottish Office from a reference on one paper and relates to a disposal being arranged in 1957 at Cairn Ryan, a port used for the
disposal of munitions to Beaufort's Dyke, of a damaged closed caesium 137 source. There is no indication of the disposal site or any
other information on the form of disposal. The level of radioactivity is described as about one quarter curie.
The second instance was identified by my Department concerning the dumping in 1976 of about 10,000 tonnes of building rubble and
soil from the demolition of the premises of Thorium Ltd., a company that extracted thorium from minerals and left a waste product
containing enhanced levels of naturally radioactive material. The authorisation required that the average radioactivity of this
demolition material should be less than 5 x 10{-4} microcuries/gm and was not to exceed 5 x 10{-3} microcuries/gm in any part.
In respect of other locations not previously recognised as dump sites for radioactive waste, the Scottish Office has identified the
following information: scrap from a Ferranti radioactive valve manufacturing unit was dumped by Ferranti between 1954 and 1957 in
the Firth of Forth off North Queensferry. An estimate at the time put this at 7.5 mg of radium bromide at six-monthly intervals.
Advice to UK Time Ltd. in 1949 to dispose of 35,000 luminised dials likely to have contained in total between 25 and 50mg radium
either on land or in sealed drums at least five miles off shore. A subsequent paper suggests that such dumping continued in the
North sea during the 1950s.
The dumping by ICI Ltd. of two anti-static devices-- strontium 90--at the explosives disposal site off the Isle of Arran prior to
1958.
The dumping in 1963 at Garroch head, on the Clyde, of material from the clear-up of a former radium factory at Balloch.
In checking these historic records, Departments have in addition identified instances when liquid wastes or sludge containing small
amounts of radioactivity were dumped at sea through dispersion into the water column from ships. These disposals were from the naval
dockyards at Chatham and Rosyth into the North sea beyond the Thames estuary and the Firth of Forth respectively during the mid late
1960s and early 1970s; sludges from industrial sources containing enhanced natural radioactivity into the Liverpool bay area, and
possibly Morecambe bay and the Humber estuary, during the early to mid 1970s; and mildly radioactive solutions from early
experiments at MAFF's Lowestoft laboratory in the North sea in the late 1940s.
Where possible, these reports are being following up to see whether further information can be obtained.
On the evidence of the papers that have been examined, I am advised that, even using cautious assumptions, it is estimated that
radiation exposures to the public following any dispersal of radioactivity in the sea would give rise to radiation dose levels well
within the International Commission on Radiological Protection recommended dose limit and a small fraction of those arising from
natural background radioactivity. Nevertheless, I am arranging for the National Radiological Protection Board to make an independent
assessment of this information and anything further that can be found. In particular, I shall ask it to advise me of the
radiological significance of the disposals and on whether there is any need for monitoring over and above that which is already
undertaken. I shall report further to the House when I have received the board's advice.
Subjects
Pollution; National Radiological Protection Board; Radioactive waste; Radioactive materials; Waste disposal; Seas and oceans; Ferranti; Scottish Office; North Sea; ICI; Rosyth Dockyard; Irish Sea; Beaufort's Dyke; Chatham Dockyard; International Commission on Radiological Protection; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Thorium; Isle of Arran; Lowestoft; Humber estuary; Firth of Forth; Morecambe Bay; Radium; Cairnryan; Garroch Head
Date
30 July 1997
Reference
12069; 299 c322-4W
House
House of Commons
Statement on what information is being made available on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. - Includes details of dumping sites.
Statement on what information is being made available on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea. - Includes details of dumping sites.
Asked by
Lord Peston
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Donoughue
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
For answer on
30 July 1997
Answered on
30 July 1997
Subjects
Pollution; National Radiological Protection Board; Radioactive waste; Radioactive materials; Waste disposal; Seas and oceans; Ferranti; Scottish Office; North Sea; ICI; Rosyth Dockyard; Irish Sea; Beaufort's Dyke; Chatham Dockyard; International Commission on Radiological Protection; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Thorium; Isle of Arran; Lowestoft; Humber estuary; Firth of Forth; Morecambe Bay; Radium; Cairnryan; Garroch Head
Date
30 July 1997
Reference
582 c57-9WA
House
House of Lords
What data his Department has collated concerning radium experiments on humans at Alverstoke. - Will write.
What data his Department has collated concerning radium experiments on humans at Alverstoke. - Will write.
Asked by
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Lord Soames of Fletching
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
For answer on
4 March 1997
Answered on
4 March 1997
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what data his Department has collated concerning radium experiments on
humans at Alverstoke. [18098]
Mr. Soames: I will write to the hon. Member and a copy of my letter will be placed in the Library.
Subjects
Defence; Research; Defence Research Agency; Radium
Date
4 March 1997
Reference
18098; 291 c586W
House
House of Commons
To comment on his Department's programme to clean-up and restore sites where radium luminising has taken place, indicating the location of each site, the steps taken to decontaminate the site and the cost to date of restoration work.
To comment on his Department's programme to clean-up and restore sites where radium luminising has taken place, indicating the location of each site, the steps taken to decontaminate the site and the cost to date of restoration work.
Asked by
Michael Meacher
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Soames of Fletching
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
For answer on
15 November 1996
Answered on
15 November 1996
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on his Department's programme to clean up and
restore sites where radium luminising has taken place, indicating the location of each site, the steps taken to decontaminate the
site and the cost to date of restoration work. [3979]
Mr. Soames: Radium luminising took place during the 1940s and 1950s prior to the introduction of controls under the Radioactive
Substances Act 1960. No record of facilities or sites specifically engaged in this work were therefore maintained, but where past
practices involving the use of radium luminised materials have resulted in contamination of the site, this is addressed as part of
the land quality assessment--LQA--process with decontamination being undertaken where necessary.
A prioritised LQA programme for the Defence estate is being prepared, with high priorities assigned to sites where there are plans
for significant change of use, including sale, or where contamination is suspected. Where radium contamination is identified in an
LQA, the need for clean up and remediation will be determined, taking into account the future use of the site. This will be
undertaken on a case-by-case basis.
The steps to decontaminate a site will depend on the circumstances, but in all cases such work is in accordance with relevant
legislation. Contaminated arisings are disposed of in accordance with letters of agreement issued by the environmental agencies and
their predecessors.
The cost restoration work could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Subjects
Land; Pollution; Ministry of Defence; Radium
Date
15 November 1996
Reference
3979; 285 c371-2W
House
House of Commons