HC Deb 07 July 1959 vol 608 cc117-8W
77. Mr. Awbery

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs how far he has now developed his plans for a monitoring service which will be available to local authorities; and if he will instruct local authorities, owing to the inadequacy of present arrangements, to obtain the necessary staff and equipment so that they can proceed with their own monitoring system on a scale which they think necessary until the completion of his plans.

Mr. H. Brooke

The Government already have nation-wide arrangements for testing radioactivity in the environment and for keeping a special watch near nuclear installations. These arrangements will be adjusted if experience shows this to be necessary. I can see nothing that would be gained by local authorities duplicating them.