HC Deb 23 February 1994 vol 238 c301W
Mr. Donohoe

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what surveys have been undertaken by the Scottish Office into cancer clusters in the west of Scotland; and what conclusions they have reached.

Mr. Stewart

[holding answer 18 February 1994]: Over the last three years, the information and statistics division of the NHS in Scotland has carried out four studies of cancer incidence in the west of Scotland, as follows: cancer incidence in the Port Glasgow area; childhood leukaemia in Largs and Millport; cancer incidence in the Cumbernauld and Muirhead areas; and childhood cancer in the Ayrshire and Arran health board area. Each study concluded that there was no evidence of abnormally high rates of cancer in the area studied.