§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 22 May,Official Report, column 269, further to 0273/92/93/(27), if he will list those organisations and individuals who have 24W contributed to his consultation exercise relating to minerals planning guidance 3 as it affects opencast coal mining operators.
§ Mr. BaldryMy Department has received 58 responses to the consultation exercise. I am placing a list of those who have responded in the Library of the House.
§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those planning decisions relating to opencast mining applications which have been called in by his Department in each of the last five years for the Secretary of State's ruling; and, in each case, whether permission was given or refused, or whether the case has still to be determined.
§ Mr. BaldryMy Department has called in one planning decision relating to an opencast mining application in the last five years. The application was by the British Coal Corporation for the Smotherfly—revised—opencast coal site in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. It was called in on 8 December 1987, and permission for the development was given on 17 March 1989.