CROSS PARTY REPORT ON CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA AND EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY ELECTRIC MAGNETIC FIELDS

Early day motion 1949, tabled 18 July 2007 by Michael Connarty (Labour). Signed by 76 members.

That this House welcomes the launch of the July 2007 Report of the Cross-party Inquiry into Childhood Leukaemia and Extremely Low Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields (ELF EMF); supports the recommendations of the inquiry, which include a moratorium on the building of new homes and schools within 60 metres of existing high voltage overhead transmission lines, increased funding for research into the link between childhood leukaemia and EMF, the implementation of the Government's SAGE report recommendations, and the protection of homeowners by providing them with information about the levels of EMF in any property; and calls upon the Government to take into account the dangers of EMF in transmission and distribution in its Energy Review and on the Department for Communities and Local Government to take all the inquiry's recommendations into consideration in planning for all new homes and schools.

Signatures by party: Labour 44, Liberal Democrat 19, Conservative 8, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Independent 1, Scottish National Party 1.