HC Deb 29 January 1993 vol 217 c872W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans Her Majesty's Government have to exempt land owned by British Rail from the register of contaminated land.

Mr. Maclean

There is no power under section 143 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to exempt sites from registers of land subject to contaminative uses on the basis of their ownership.