Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce)Official Report, 28 June, column 955, if he will publish the statistical evidence for radon emissions in Cornwall making it 80 times more dangerous to live there than in Copeland.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe average radiation dose per person from radon in Cornwall is 6.3 millisieverts per year. This is about 80 times the annual average dose of below 0.08 millisieverts for Copeland from the discharges at Sellafield. For further information I refer the hon. Member to the 1988 "Review of Radiation Exposure of the UK Population" published by the National Radiological Protection Board. I am arranging for copies to be placed in the Library of the House.