§ Mr. Canavanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all those institutions in Scotland known to him which are both competent and properly equipped to analyse samples of soil, vegetation and animal tissue for the presence in parts per trillion, of polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated terphenyls, polybrominated byphenyls, dioxins and furans.
§ Mr. AncramRecords are not held centrally of laboratories equipped to undertake the analyses in question. Strathclyde regional chemist is know to undertake analyses for polychlorinated biphenyls, PCTs, PBBs, dioxins and furans. Other laboratories in Scotland may well be capable of carrying out those analyses but they have not, to my knowledge, been active in the field.