§ Mr. GarrettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the United Kingdom input figures, and their dates, for each of the 23 red list substances, which are to be used as the baseline for the Government's commitment to reduce riverine, estuarial and direct coastal aqueous discharges to the sea by 50 per cent.; and if he will disaggregate inputs of each substance to the North sea and other coastal waters of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. YeoThe available information is contained in "The Implementation of the Ministerial Declaration of the Second International Conference on the Protection of the North Sea," published by my Department in February 1990, a copy of which is in the Library of the House. Discharges of red list substances in Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.
§ Mr. GarrettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the latest available figures relating to riverine, estuarial and direct coastal discharges of the red list substances; and what are their dates, disaggregating the data to provide input figures of each substance to the North sea and other coastal waters of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. YeoThe latest available information is contained in "Controlling the Inputs of Persistent Chemicals to Marine Waters from Land-Based Sources", a paper by the chief scientist of the National Rivers Authority given to the British Association for the Advancement of Science at its Southampton meeting in August 1992. A copy of this is in the Library of the House. Discharges of red list substances in Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.