§ 58. Mr. Pavittasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what are his administrative arrangements for discharging his responsibility for research into environmental health; and what examination is being made of atmospheric pollution by carbon monoxide as a contributive factor to the incidence of cancer.
§ Mr. MellishMy right hon. Friend has no express responsibility for research into environmental health, but the Department keeps in touch with, and sometimes commissions, research by various Government research organisations and by other bodies both in this country and abroad.
The Air Pollution Research Unit of the Medical Research Council is currently carrying out research into the toxic effects of air pollution by carbon monoxide; I am informed that no evidence has been found that atmospheric carbon monoxide contributes to the incidence of cancer.