Further to the answer to question S2W-17100 by Malcolm Chisholm on 14 June 2005, what precautionary measures were put in place in response …

The Independent Expert Group suggested a “precautionary approach” should be adopted for mobile telecommunications technology and made 34 specific recommendations. The Government response to the recommendation of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones and Health was issued at the same time as the publication of the report in May 2000, and is still available on the Department of Health website:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidanceArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4009677&chk=OoEUlX.
Precautionary advice was also subsequently issued in leaflets that provided information for the public about mobile phone technologies. Two leaflets, Mobile Phone Base Stations and Health and Mobile Phones and Health were published jointly by the Department of Health, the Scottish Executive, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Executive, and are still available.
Many of the recommendations of the expert group could be considered as precautionary advice, and were directed at Government, industry and the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB
- now the Radiation Protection Division of the Health Protection Agency). A number of measures were put in place to meet these recommendations. These measures were described, and progress on implementing them was reviewed by the NRPB in the publication Mobile Phones and Health 2004 (Volume 15 No 5 2004). This publication is also available from the web at:
http://www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/publications/documents_of_nrpb/abstracts/absd15-5.htm.
National Planning Policy Guideline 19: Radio Telecommunications mentions specific measures, including:
Emissions from mobile phone base stations to meet the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) guidelines for public exposure as expressed in the limits set in the EU Council recommendation of 12 July 1999 on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields.
Creation of a national database giving details of all base stations and their emissions. The database was established and maintained by the Radiocommunications Agency and is now managed by Ofcom and is accessible to the public via the Ofcom website:
http://www.sitefinder.radio.gov.uk/
An independent audit of emissions around base stations (masts) to give the public confidence that base stations do not exceed the ICNIRP public exposure guidelines. The surveys were initially undertaken by the Radiocommunications Agency and again have been transferred to Ofcom. All measurements so far show emissions to be at most hundreds of times below the ICNIRP guidelines and usually thousands of times below these levels. Further information is available on the Ofcom website:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/telecoms_ifc/telephony_con_guides/mob_phone_base_stat/
Commissioning a comprehensive programme of further research on health matters. The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme has been running for several years now and further information is available at www.mthr.org.uk.