§ Dr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what steps he intends to take to ensure the South-West water authority has access to all the information arising from the supplementary soil tests currently being conducted along the proposed route of the Okehampton bypass;
(2) following the letter of 26 March from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member 549W for Mitcham and Morden (Mrs Rumbold) to Lady Sayer, what consultations he intends to have with the South-West water authority on the possible contamination by arsenic of the rivers East and West Okement arising from the construction of the Okehampton bypass on the southern route;
(3) what consultations he had with the South-West water authority about the possible contamination of the rivers West and East Okement by metals, including arsenic, during the construction of the Okehampton bypass along the southern route;
(4) if he will publish the correspondence he has had with the South-West water authority on the subject of the metallic contamination of water courses in the vicinity of the southern route of the Okehampton bypass.
§ Mrs. RumboldI shall answer these questions shortly.