PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
MOBILE PHONES AND MASTS (No. 2) (14 May 2000)

That this House welcomes the publication of the Stewart Report; and notes its conclusions and recommendations; and urges the Government, in view of the widespread uncertainty and public concern over the rapid increase in the number of base stations and escalating sales of mobile phones to inspect all installations on or near school grounds to ensure that the beam of greatest intensity does not fall on any part of the school buildings or grounds without the agreement of the school and parents, to empower local authorities to ensure that the RF fields to which the public will be exposed can be kept to the lowest practical levels, to empower health authorities to limit the use of mobile phones within any hospital or health related site, to require that at the point of sale all mobile phones should carry a clear statement of their specific energy absorption rate and that comparative SAR values be made available to the consumer, to require industry to take immediate steps to discourage the non-essential use of mobile phones for children under the age of 16 years, to take into account, in the absence of peer-group validated research, anecdotal and non-peer group validated research to set up substantial new research programmes immediately under the aegis of a demonstrably independent panel with the cost of research jointly funded by the industry and the Government, to subject new research to a triennial review that is reported to Parliament or earlier if the circumstances demand and to produce information and send it to every household about mobile phone technology and related health aspects and to make these leaflets available at the point of sale of mobile phones.

Sponsored by:
Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat)