HC Deb 28 April 1989 vol 151 c688W
Mr. Colvin

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a further statement on the application by the Central Electricity Generating Board to build a coal jetty and related works at Fawley.

Mr. Portillo

As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy informed my hon. Friend on 27 October 1988, at column320, in view of the board's decision not to pursue for the time being its application for consent to build a generating station at Fawley the Government decided that the board's associated application for an order empowering the building of a jetty and other harbour works should not proceed further. There is therefore no extant application under the Harbours Act. The board recently announced the withdrawal of its application for the generating station.