§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to include statistics on UK 793W compliance with EU bathing water directive standards, in addition to those for coliforms, in the next edition of "The Environment in Your Pocket" yearbook. [7448]
§ Mr. ClappisonThe content of the 1997 edition of "The Environment in your Pocket" has yet to be decided. However, it is likely that it will again include one or two items on bathing waters, as in the 1996 edition, but there is a limit to what can be included in a booklet of this size.
The information given in "The Environment in your Pocket" is a distillation of some of the key statistics published in detail in the annual "Digest of Environmental Statistics". Full, detailed statistics on performance of all bathing waters against bathing water directive standards for all parameters for which a mandatory standard is set will continue to be published in "Digest No. 19" in 1997 and on the Internet World Wide Web site—address: http://www.open.gov.uk/doe/epsim.