Military Bases (Land Contamination)

HC Deb 24 June 1996 vol 280 cc38-9W

Mr. Foulkes

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the results of the surveys undertaken by the Army and Royal Air Force into the contamination of land surrounding military bases. [33879]

Mr. Soames

My Department does not normally undertake surveys of land beyond the perimeter of sites which it occupies. If, exceptionally, such work proves to be necessary, the question of publication of the resulting documentation would be a matter for the owner of the land and, where necessary, the appropriate regulatory body.