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Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Letter by email to: healthsofs@dh.gsi.gov.uk 6 February 2019 Dear Matt Thank you for your reply of 5 November 2018 to my letter of 9 October about the public health impacts of fracking. Since publication of that reply I have received further correspondence on the matter, in response to which I would be grateful for your reply to the following questions: • What published evidence on the potential public health impacts of emissions associated with shale gas extraction has Public Health England reviewed since 2014? I would be grateful for a response to this question in the form of a list of all the relevant research that has been assessed by PHE in that period. • The correspondence which I have received notes that PHE’s 2014 report assessed only the potential health impacts caused by the ‘direct release of chemical and radioactive pollutants’, and not the wider public health impacts caused by, for example, increased HGV traffic, noise and light pollution, or other potential health risks associated with fracking. Your letter notes that “PHE continues to review the evidence on the potential public health impacts of emissions associated with shale gas extraction”, but makes no mention of the wider public health impacts associated with fracking, on which I understand there is now a considerable body of published evidence. 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