Deputy Prime Minister written question – answered at on 9 February 2004.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what plans he has to amend safety limits on mobile phone masts to take account of recent UK and European research.
The Government does not have any plans to amend the radio frequency public exposure guidelines. Our advice is based on the Stewart Report on health effects of mobile phones and base stations, which recommended a precautionary approach to the development of mobile phone technology. The Government accepted the precautionary approach and has therefore introduced measures to ensure that people's exposures from base stations meet the guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). These guidelines are five times tougher than they had been for the public.
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The Government is keeping the whole area of mobile phone technologies under review in the light of further research.
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Barry Johnson
Posted on 11 Nov 2004 6:16 pm (Report this annotation)
If you say your advice is based on the Stewart Report why are you not keeping phone masts away from schools?
You are saying a lot and doing nothing about it.