HC Deb 13 June 1972 vol 838 c287W
Mr. Leonard

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what reply has been sent to the letter to the Minister for Transport Industries from Mr. Ben Percy-Davis, of the Essex Branch of the Conservation Society, concerning diesel fumes.

Mr. Eldon Griffiths

The Department wrote on 12th June saying that studies by the Medical Research Council of conditions in bus garages and road tunnels show that the levels of diesel fumes normally occurring are so low as to present no danger to health.