Under 18 Year Olds Using Unsupervised Sunbed Salons

EDM number 878 in 2007-08, proposed by Sian C James on 05/02/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Consumers, Health education and preventive medicine and Service industries.

That this House expresses concern that under 18 year olds are able to easily access unsupervised sunbed salons; notes that unsupervised sunbed salons have no staff to prevent under 18 year olds using sunbeds; notes that both the World Health Organisation and the European Union have expressed the view that under 18 year olds should not use sunbeds; notes that sunbed use when young is associated with an increased risk of skin cancer; further notes with alarm the increase in incidence rates of malignant melanoma over the last 20 years; recognises the commitment in the Cancer Reform Strategy to review options for addressing sunbed consumer safety; and calls on the Government to prohibit use of sunbeds by under 18 year olds, provide evidence-based health information in sunbed salons and prohibit unsupervised sunbed salons.

This motion has been signed by a total of 99 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.