HC Deb 03 May 1990 vol 171 c616W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to instigate a national survey to establish those properties where radiation levels are above acceptable levels; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Trippier

A representative national survey of radon in houses has been carried out by the National Radiological Protection Board; the results are given in the publication "Natural Radiation Exposure in UK Dwellings, NRPB—R190, May 1988", a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House. A further programme of radon surveys by the NRPB is being funded by my Department.