§ Mr. OnslowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will place in the Library copies of water authorities' reports for 1987 detailing works which failed to comply with discharge consent conditions.
§ Mr. MoynihanI am arranging for copies of the returns of the water authorities for those sewage treatment works which failed to comply with their discharge consent conditions in 1987 to be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
§ Mr. OnslowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what discussions his Department has had with Thames water authority about the allocation of extra funds to bring all the authority's sewage treatment works up to the current discharge consent standard; and what funds have been allocated as a result over each of the next five years.
§ Mr. MoynihanExpenditure on sewage treatment works features in the Thames water authority corporate plan which the chairman is due to discuss with my noble Friend the Minister of State before the summer recess. The Department sets a ceiling on each authority's capital expenditure in aggregate for the year ahead but does not allocate amounts to particular functional programmes.