§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has carried out into the effects on human health of substances emitted from waste disposal incinerators.
§ Mr. DorrellI refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him by my hon. Friend the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment on 21 January at columns97–98. The Government are currently funding the small area health statistics unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to investigate possible links between pollution from waste incinerators and ill health in the local community.