HC Deb 02 November 1988 vol 139 c677W
24. Mr. Meale

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will introduce legislation to place a duty on water authorities in England and Wales to make publicly available details of discharges within 28 days of the date of sampling.

Mr. Moynihan

We propose that regulations to be made under forthcoming water legislation should require that the time limit for placing details of effluent samples on public registers should run from the taking of the sample rather than, as at present, from the completion of the analysis.