HL Deb 29 July 1982 vol 434 cc443-4WA
Lord Melchett

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they accept that attempts by the Forestry Commission to plant new forests in the Pennines have failed in part because of the effects of sulphur pollution.

Earl Ferrers

While the trial plantations established by the Forestry Commission in the Pennines during the 1950s and early 1960s were badly affected by sulphur pollution, subsequent plantings have been much more successful. There has been an improvement in the older plantations coinciding with a reduction in the levels of air pollution.