§ Mr. Canavanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland in view of his statement of 30 April 1984, in a letter to the Society for the Control of Toxic and Troublesome Industrial Emissions, that there was an absence of fully informed toxicological advice on the results of the various reports on human and animal health problems in central Scotland, whether he will publish, in detail and also in a form accessible and intelligible to the non-scientific public, the evidence to be made available to him by the Department of Health and Social Security's independent committees, comprising experts in the field of toxicology and related disciplines, on the toxicological significance of the data on human and animal health in central Scotland.
§ Mr. John MacKayThese committees exist principally to provide advice to Departments. When they have completed their work the Government will examine this advice and consider what further action is required, bearing in mind public concern for well-presented information on this subject.