HC Deb 04 July 2000 vol 353 c141W
27. Ms Perham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the risk to health of people living near telecommunications masts. [127536]

Yvette Cooper

The recently published report of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones (the Stewart Group) concluded that the balance of evidence indicates that there is no general risk to health to people living near base stations, but that gaps in knowledge are sufficient to justify a precautionary approach.

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