Hywel Williams
Shadow PC Spokesperson (Education), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Work and Pensions), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Health), Shadow PC Spokesperson (International Development)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has specialist expertise on the asbestos risks to children.
Jane Ellison
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
Public Health England has expertise in toxicology within its Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards and can draw on expertise on asbestos risks to children through the Department of Health expert committee on carcinogenicity (COC) of chemicals in food, consumer products and the environment. This Committee has reviewed evidence and produced a statement on the relative vulnerability of children to asbestos compared to adults, which can be found at:
www.iacoc.org.uk/statements/documents/Asbestosinschoolsstatement_000.pdf
Further information on the Committee, including the papers and minutes of the discussions on relative vulnerability of children to asbestos compared to adults, is available from the COC website at:
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