June 2002 - Jubilee Special
CHRONOLOGY 1989 - 2002


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HOPES AND DREAMS
SANITARY INSPECTORS IN WARTIME
EMERGING HAZARDS
CHRONOLOGY
REMINISCENCES
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EHJ June 2002  
1952 - 1968 1970 - 1988 1989 - 2002

1989

  • Children Act.
  • Compulsory competitive tendering begins for council services.
  • Nigel Lawson resigns as chancellor.
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • Human SBO regulations, require removal of brain and spinal cord from carcasses.

1990

  • NHS and Community Care Act.
  • Environment white paper sets more than 350 green objectives to be achieved by 2000.
  • Environmental Protection Act.
  • Prevention of nuisances, including poor housing conditions and noise, across the public and private sectors.
  • Food Safety Act adopts European legislation.
  • Sir Donald Acheson, Chief Medical Officer, says that "beef is safe".
  • "Poll tax" riots in Trafalgar Square.
  • Britain joins the exchange rate mechanism.
  • Geoffrey Howe resigns from cabinet.

1992

  • April - Conservatives win a fourth election victory. Their majority is reduced to 21 seats.
  • Maastricht Treaty.
  • Community charge replaced by council tax. Local Government Commission reviews councils.
  • Citizen's Charter.
  • "Black Wednesday" on 16 September.
  • Health and Safety "six pack". Rio Earth Summit.

1993

  • IEHO moves to Chadwick Court. Becomes collaborating centre for environmental health management for WHO Europe.
  • Murder of Stephen Lawrence.
  • British Rail privatised.
  • BSE found in 100,000th animal.

1994

  • Estate Action and City Challenge merged into the Single Regeneration Budget.
  • Criminal Justice and Public Order Act abolishes the right to silence
  • Scott inquiry into arms sales.
  • Labour's Social Justice Commission.
  • Financial crisis hits the IEHO, which becomes the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).

1995

  • Nolan Committee examines standards in public life.
  • John Major re-elected by Conservative leader.
  • Meat Hygiene Service set up to inspect abattoirs and cutting plants.
  • First case of vCJD diagnosed in humans. European Food safety regulations
    introduced.

1996

  • Housing Act creates registered social landlords and local housing companies. Restricts homeless people's rights.
  • End of mandatory renovation grants.
  • Noise Act. Night-time noise offence. Unitary councils begin in Scotland and Wales.
  • Environment Agency replaces Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution, the National Rivers Authority and 83 waste regulation authorities.
  • Lanarkshire E.coli O157 outbreak kills 18 people.
  • Link between BSE and vCJD announced. Staining of specified risk material. Slaughter of two million cattle.
  • Charles and Diana divorce.

1997

  • May - Labour victory with a 179-seat majority. Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister.
    Deputy PM, John Prescott, runs new Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. First public health minister, Tessa Jowell.
  • One-in-five families is headed by a single parent. Nearly a third of children lives in a household in which no-one is in full-time employment.
  • Local Government Association forms.
  • John Major replaced as Conservative leader by William Hague.
  • Princess Diana killed in car crash.

1998

  • Countryside Alliance march.
  • Acheson report into health inequalities. Smoking Kills white paper.
  • Crime and Disorder Act. Child curfews and anti-social behaviour orders.
  • Urban development corporations wound up. Urban Task Force set up, led by Lord Rogers.
  • Bombing of Iraq.
  • Peter Mandelson, trade and industry secretary, resigns.
  • National minimum wage.
  • Environmental Health Commission publishes Agendas for Change, commissioned by CIEH.

1999

  • A better quality of life white paper - 150 sustainability indicators.
  • Health white paper, Saving Lives. British Medical Association says that the UK has some of the unhealthiest children in the developed world.
  • Health Act. Health improvement programmes. Pooled budgets.
  • Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly elections. Best value begins. Vouchers for asylum seekers. Northern Ireland Assembly re-starts.

2000

  • Food Standards Agency and Health Development Agency begin.
  • Elections for London mayor and assembly. Act introduces mayors and cabinets for English councils.
  • Licensing of English butchers' shops.
  • Sixteen-volume Phillips report into the BSE epidemic. Blames institutional failures rather than individuals.
  • Fuel protests.

2001

  • June - Labour wins second term with 179-seat majority. MAFF and the DETR replaced by new ministries.
  • HMO licensing promised in election manifesto.
  • Conclusion of Operation Fox against condemned poultry fraud, led by Rotherham MDC. Five men jailed
  • Human genome mapped.
  • Foot and mouth virus devastates farming.
  • September 11 terrorist attack.

2002

  • Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Wanless report recommends increase in NHS budget from £68bn to £184bn by 2023.
1952 - 1968 1970 - 1988 1989 - 2002