§ Mr. Elystan Morganasked the Secretary of State for Wales what studies have been made by any Government or other official body in Wales of the levels of lead contamination; and what official information is available.
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§ Mr. Peter ThomasInvestigations have been made in recent years by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Trade and Industry and some Welsh local authorities and university colleges into the levels of heavy metals, including lead, in the general environment. I announced last December a Welsh Office sponsored research project in the Swansea/Neath/Port Talbot area, parts of which would cover all industrial South Wales, to establish the levels of heavy metals including lead in the air and associated levels in people, animals and vegetation. This study is now under way, and I expect a report to be published in 1973.