HC Deb 07 July 1980 vol 988 c51W
Mr. Haynes

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report, the local authorities that have cut their smoke control programme because of public expenditure cuts.

Mr. Fox

The Department does not require individual authorities to give information about their smoke control programmes in a form that would make it possible to answer this question.

Mr. Haynes

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if it remains his policy to continue to encourage local authorities to continue with smoke control programmes.

Mr. Fox

Yes. Clearly priority should be given to those areas where concentrations of smoke and sulphur dioxide exceed the limit values prescribed in the recently adopted European Community directive on health protection standards for those pollutants.