PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fire and Rescue Services: Cancer (12 July 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the World Health Organisation report entitled Carcinogenicity of occupational exposure as a firefighter, published on 30 June 2022, if she will make an assessment of the implications of her policies of the evidence linking flame retardants to cancers in firefighters.

Asked by:
Janet Daby (Labour)

The health and safety of firefighters is of great importance.

The emerging evidence of firefighters being exposed to risks of cancer is concerning.

It is for individual fire and rescue authorities, as employers with responsibility for health and wellbeing, to ensure that firefighters receive the appropriate equipment and training they need to safely respond to the wide range of incidents which they attend.

Answered by:
Miss Sarah Dines (Conservative)
21 July 2022