§ Mr. DonohoeTo 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.