§ Dr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he intends to take to ensure the South-West water authority has access to all the information from the supplementary soil tests currently being conducted along the proposed route of the Okehampton bypass.
§ Mrs. Rumbold[pursuant to her answer, 15 May 1986, c.552.]: I refer the hon. Member to the the reply by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport on 15 May, at column 509 in the Offical Report.
§ Dr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for the Environment, following the letter of 26 March from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Mrs. Rumbold) to Lady Sayer, what consultations he intends to have with the South-West water authority on the possible contamination by arsenic of the rivers East and West Okement arising from the construction of the Okehampton bypass on the southern route.
§ Mrs Rumbold[pursuant to her answer, 15 May 1986, c. 552–53]: The quality of the rivers East and West Okement is a matter for the South-West water authority. My officials will maintain liaison with the authority.
§ Dr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what consultations he has had with the South-West water authority about the possible
372Wcontamination of the rivers West and East Okement by metals, including arsenic, during the construction of the Okehampton bypass along the southern route.
§ Mrs. Rumbold[pursuant to her answer, 15 May 1986, c. 553]: Any such discussions are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport.
§ Dr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the correspondence he has had with the South-West water authority on the subject of the metallic contamination of water courses in the vicinity of the southern route of the Okehampton bypass.
§ Mrs. Rumbold[pursuant to her answer, 15 May 1986, c. 553.]: There has not been any such correspondence.