HC Deb 30 November 1978 vol 959 cc337-8W
Mr. Edward Lyons

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he can now give a date for the publication of the report on the study of lead from motor vehicles by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Denis Howell:

The report was published today. The study is part of a research programme on the sources of lead pollution and its effects on health.

The report concludes that more of the lead present in the air we breathe may be absorbed by the body than we had thought when this work was commissioned. This is an important finding and may be particularly significant where under schedule 3 to the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act 1976. The common zebra was described on that order as equus burchelli and not as equus quagga. If we had considered that including the quagga would have improved its chances of resurrection we might have included it.

Back to