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.

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.