HC Deb 15 July 1982 vol 27 cc430-1W
Mr. Cartwright

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how the results of the 1981 European Community screening programme of (a) children living around Abbey Wood lead works and (b) children of Abbey Wood lead workers compare with similar surveys conducted in 1979.

Mr. Giles Shaw

In the case of the two groups of Greenwich children, the proportion with blood-lead levels below 20 micrograms/100 millilitres—the lowest of the three reference levels—increased from 92 per cent. to 97 per cent. for children living near the battery factory and from 89 per cent. to 92 per cent. for the workers' children. Further information on this welcome improvement is available in the reports on the 1979 and 1981 surveys, which I have placed in the Library of the House.