HC Deb 09 May 2000 vol 349 cc359-60W
24. Dr. Gibson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what recent research he has commissioned to determine the effects of climate change on human health. [120164]

Mr. Meacher

My Department supports research on the global impacts of climate change on human health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Department of Health has commissioned a report from the Institute for Environment and Health on the possible impacts of climate change on health in the UK.