HC Deb 10 November 1998 vol 319 cc172-3W
23. Dr. Gibson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what studies he has made of the effects of global warming on health. [57373]

Ms Jowell

The Government, through the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), support research on the global impacts of climate change on human health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Department of Health itself has not yet commissioned any studies directly related to the effects of global warming on health. However since the Climate Change Impacts Review group of the DETR identified possible health effects we are in discussion about research areas with the Environmental Change Unit at the University of Oxford.

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