§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has made of the amounts of inorganic fertiliser running off farm land into rivers in Great Britain.
§ Mr. Peter MillsMonitoring is carried out by my Department and investigational work by the ARC. But it is not possible readily to identify the origin of inorganic chemicals in the run-off from agricultural land. Their presence can be due to many causes, not least the natural processes in the soil. There is nothing to suggest that in general the run-off of chemicals which there may be from agricultural land is hazardous.