Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to leaders in South Sudan on the recent abduction of children from a school in Malakal.
Answered by James Duddridge
We are deeply concerned by the recent abduction of children in Malakal, South Sudan. Our Embassy in Juba has made repeated representations to the Government of South Sudan and called for their safe return and for the perpetrators to be held to account.Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects to publish the consultation document on remediation work at Dalgety Bay, Fife.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) published the Dalgety Bay Management Strategy report on 10 July 2014. The MOD has agreed in principle to implement the measures recommended in the report, though the arrangements are subject to discussion with other parties.
Consultation on implementing the strategy will now be led by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which will set out its timetable.
Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will allocate funding for the removal of radiation particles and the repair of the beach area at Dalgety Bay, Fife.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) published the Dalgety Bay Management Strategy report on 10 July 2014. The MOD has agreed in principle to implement the measures recommended in the report, though the arrangements are subject to discussion with other parties.
Consultation on implementing the strategy will now be led by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which will set out its timetable.
Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how long the period of consultation he proposes is for the review of remediation work at Dalgety Bay, Fife.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) published the Dalgety Bay Management Strategy report on 10 July 2014. The MOD has agreed in principle to implement the measures recommended in the report, though the arrangements are subject to discussion with other parties.
Consultation on implementing the strategy will now be led by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which will set out its timetable.
Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reason is for the time taken for his Department to publish COMPARE's report on radium contamination at Dalgety Bay.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Department has been engaged with the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment throughout the production of its report on Dalgety Bay, andour priority throughout has been to make sure that it is comprehensive, accurate and up to date.
During this process information was provided to the Committee for due consideration prior to final publication.
Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will visit Dalgety Bay to discuss the time taken to clean up radiation contamination there.
Answered by Mark Francois
In 2006 the then Health Protection Agency (HPA) Radiological Protection Authority advised that radioactive contamination on Dalgety Bay presented a low risk to the public. A more recent scoping risk assessment undertaken in 2011 by the HPA Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards at the bequest of the Scottish Government concluded that the risk to health was very low.
The view of the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (now part of Public Health England) remains unchanged. However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is completing a detailed quantitative risk assessment to inform the longer term management strategy which will be available in due course.
Copies of the advice received by MOD together with a copy of the more detailed risk assessment, when published, will be placed in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he was first made aware of health risks at Dalgety Bay.
Answered by Mark Francois
In 2006 the then Health Protection Agency (HPA) Radiological Protection Authority advised that radioactive contamination on Dalgety Bay presented a low risk to the public. A more recent scoping risk assessment undertaken in 2011 by the HPA Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards at the bequest of the Scottish Government concluded that the risk to health was very low.
The view of the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (now part of Public Health England) remains unchanged. However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is completing a detailed quantitative risk assessment to inform the longer term management strategy which will be available in due course.
Copies of the advice received by MOD together with a copy of the more detailed risk assessment, when published, will be placed in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the advice received by his Department on health risks of the radiation contamination at Dalgety Bay.
Answered by Mark Francois
In 2006 the then Health Protection Agency (HPA) Radiological Protection Authority advised that radioactive contamination on Dalgety Bay presented a low risk to the public. A more recent scoping risk assessment undertaken in 2011 by the HPA Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards at the bequest of the Scottish Government concluded that the risk to health was very low.
The view of the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (now part of Public Health England) remains unchanged. However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is completing a detailed quantitative risk assessment to inform the longer term management strategy which will be available in due course.
Copies of the advice received by MOD together with a copy of the more detailed risk assessment, when published, will be placed in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Gordon Brown (Labour - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish the remedial action plan for Dalgety Bay; and when he expects to begin a consultation on that plan.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The right hon. Member will be aware that the Ministry of Defence remains committed to working alongside the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and other interested parties as part of a coalition to address the issue of radioactive contamination at Dalgety Bay in the long term.
I am pleased to be able to report that the Department remains on track to define and deliver a proposal informed by the work of Public Health England and the more detailed risk assessment for SEPA to assess the wider implications of implementation on stakeholders and the local community from the end of June 2014.