HC Deb 14 October 1969 vol 788 cc50-1W
Mr. Wall

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will seek to ensure that the working party on sewage disposal has an opportunity to consider the results of his Department's questionnaire on trade effluent disposal costs before it reports, and that the Department's analysis will show the costs incurred by each of the major discharging industries.

Mr. Denis Howell

The working party hopes to present its report within the next few months and I should not want the working party to delay it if the replies to the questionnaire, which is part of the Rivers Pollution Survey, are not received soon enough. But I shall certainly see that the working party has the results if they are ready in time. The Department's report on the survey will show the trade effluent disposal costs incurred by each category of industry.