§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the total value of the contracts which have been gained by the Warren Spring laboratory from his Department for its work carried out on acid rain and oil pollution.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe Department of the Environment has two contracts with the Warren Spring laboratory for monitoring and other work on air pollution. The contracts are varied annually. In 1985–86, some £1,230,000 of the contract sums was spent on work directly related to the acid rain problem. I understand that the Department of Transport lets a contract annually to the, laboratory for work on marine oil pollution and that expenditure on the contract in 1985–86 amounted to £801,000.