§ Mr. OnslowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will place in the Library copies of water authorities' reports for 1986 detailing works which failed to comply with discharge consent conditions.
§ Mr. Moynihan[holding answer 7 June 1988]: Individual returns from water authorities detailing sewage treatment works which failed to comply with numerical discharge consent conditions in 1986 were not considered suitable for placement in the Library. However, a summary of the returns detailing numbers of noncompliant works per water authority was published by the Department in chapter 3 of the 1987 edition of the "Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics", issue no. 10
For 1987 water authorities were asked to provide more detailed returns in a format which should permit a more rigorous analysis of a causes of failure and proposals for remedial action.