HC Deb 29 March 1993 vol 222 cc52-3W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith),Official Report, 10 March, column 629, if he will list (a) the scope of the selective monitoring for radioactive pollution in private water supplies, (b) the consultants contracted and (c) the value of the contracts to which he makes reference.

Mr. Maclean

The monitoring provides for 100 samples from private water supplies in a given area of the United Kingdom to be taken and analysed each year. The areas covered by the current three-year contract, which is with ICI Tracerco, are: Beverley, East Yorkshire—1990; Dolgellau, north Wales—1991; Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland—1992. The value of the contract over this three-year period is £143,299 excluding VAT.