§ Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) if she will list the members of the Working Group established to take forward the Consultative Exercise on Radiation Risk from Interval Emitters; what the remit of CERRIE is; what resources are available to support CERRIE"s work; and whether CERRIE meetings are held in public; [15575]
(2) when she expects to reply to written question 15575 on the establishment of CERRIE. [34541]
§ Mr. MeacherThe membership of the Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE), set up under the auspices of the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE), has recently been finalized and is:
Chairman:
- Professor Dudley Goodhead, MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit
Members:
- Mr. Richard Brarnha11, The Low Level Radiation Campaign
- Dr. Chris Busby, Green Audit
- Dr. Roger Cox, National Radiological Protection Board
- Dr. Philip Day, University of Manchester
- Professor Sarah Darby, ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford
- Dr. John Harrison, National Radiological Protection Board
- Dr. Colin Muirhead, National Radiological Protection Board
- Mr. Pete Roche, Greenpeace UK
- Professor Jack Simmons, University of Westminster
- Dr. Richard Wakeford, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
- Professor Eric Wright, Ninewells Medical School, Dundee.
The Chairman of COMARE, Professor Bryn Bridges, will attend the meetings as an observer, as will officials from the Department of Health and DEFRA.
The remit of CERRIE is, "To consider the present risk models for radiation and health that apply to exposure to radiation from internal radionuclides in the light of recent studies and any further research that might be needed."
Consultants have been appointed to provide CERRIE with an independent secretariat. Other resources, such as accommodation etc, will be provided by the two sponsoring Departments, DEFRA and DH.
CERRIE"s meetings are not held in public.