§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to place a health warning on mobile phones. [77642]
§ Mr. WillsI have been asked to reply.
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North (Ms Walley) on 8 June 1998, Official Report, column 440.
Mobile communications equipment should comply with the guidelines for restricting human exposure to electromagnetic fields of the National Radiological Protection Board. Whilst there has been renewed media interest in this subject there has been no new scientific evidence on which to base any changes to the guidelines.
There are no plans to require mobile phones to have a health warning.