§ 92. Mr. Brooksasked the Minister of Transport whether she will ensure that, before any further proposals for large-scale works in the Mersey estuary are considered by her Department, she will have constructed a working model of the estuary to enable accurate forecasts to be made of the impact of such works upon existing channels and installations.
§ Mr. SwinglerIt is for the promoters to establish what the effect of new works106W will be to the satisfaction of Parliament, if new powers are sought, and of my right hon. Friend if they need her authority for a major project or, as Conservator of the River Mersey, for works in tidal waters. Model studies may not always be necessary, but two temporary models were, in fact, constructed to supplement the field investigations begun by the Hydraulics Research Station in 1956 and now being continued by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board with the assistance of Liverpool University.