HC Deb 27 January 1970 vol 794 cc325-6W
Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Local Government and

the Mediterranean in the preceding years were as follows:

1960 57,700
1961 136,400
1962 (January-June) 94,900

The numbers of immigrants admitted for settlement from the whole Commonwealth from 1st July, 1962 until the latest available date in 1969 are as follows:

Regional Planning if he is aware of the increase in carbon dioxide in urban atmosphere; if he will institute an urgent study into the control of air pollution; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Crosland

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in urban atmosphere are well below anything which in the light of present advice could have a harmful effect on public health, and there is no foreseeable likelihood of their becoming a public health problem. The major pollutants are smoke, grit, dust and sulphur oxides. Ground level concentration of all these has greatly diminished during the last decade.

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