Natural Gas and Oil: Public Health

(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact on public health of expanding UK oil and gas fields.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 11th December 2023

The UK Health Security Agency has not conducted a specific assessment concerning the potential impact on public health of expanding oil and gas fields in the United Kingdom.

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