Child Leukaemia

EDM number 418 in 1995-96, proposed by Paddy Tipping on 14/02/1996.

That this House welcomes the research undertaken by Professor Denis Henshaw of Bristol University, published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology and highlighted in Channel 4's Dispatches documentary, establishing a link between electromagnetic fields and child leukaemia and other cancers; congratulates the persistence and concern of parents of children with leukaemia in Abergavenny, Avon, Lancashire and Northampton; and calls on the Secretaries of State for Health and Trade and Industry to convene urgent discussions with relevant parties to consider all the causes of child leukaemia raised in these cases, to commission further research and to take the necessary steps to reduce the incidence of this serious and tragic condition.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.