§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will initiate measures for the establishing of one organisation which would both collate and disseminate environmental monitoring data to the public in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. WaldegraveOverall responsibility for initiating and co-ordinating environmental monitoring lies with the Department of the Environment. Nuclear site operators, as part of their authorisation, carry out environmental monitoring and publish their results annually. Following the Chernobyl incident, the Department will be reviewing procedures for the collation and dissemination of monitoring data.