§ Mr. Frank Cookasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the best estimate of immediate exposure to radiation from cloud gamma dose received by British students in (a) Minsk and (b) Kiev at the time of the Chernobyl incident; what assessment has been made for neutron dose; and if he will make a statement;
(2) what is the best estimate of the range of whole body dose received by those British students in (a) Minsk and (b) Kiev at the time of the Chernobyl incident and immediately afterwards; and if he will make a statement;
(3) what traces of alpha contamination were found on the clothes of the British students who were in Minsk and Kiev at the time of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant; what were the levels; and what were the different radionuclides; (4) if he will define the specific limit referred to by the National Radiological Protection Board in relation to its statement that those British students who have returned from the vicinity of the Chernobyl reactor accident had received an iodine dose to the thyroid gland of 10 per cent. of the International Commission on Radiological Protection limit; and what were the thyroid doses for (a) those students who had been in Minsk and (b) those students who had been in Kiev at the time of the accident and up to the day they left the Soviet Union.
§ Mr. WhitneyAs the general information requested by the hon. Member is of a highly technical nature, I suggest that he write to the chairman of the National Radiological Protection Board. Information relating to individual students must be protected by the normal rules on disclosure of medical data.