§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what action his Department is taking to increase the educational awareness of skin cancer in(a) children and (b) adults. [59574]
§ Ms Blears[holding answer 24 May 2002]: Information about sun safety will be available from the normal routes as well as through NHS Direct. We launched on 14 March a new departmental website www.doh.gov.uk/sunsafe providing sun safety advice. The website has been designed with both young children and their parents and teachers in mind. We are also collaborating with other key stakeholders this year in ensuring that a range of sun safety advice is publicly available. For example, the recently launched Cancer Research (UK) leaflet "Malignant Melanoma" describes the facts and signs of melanoma, for which the Department provided funding.