HC Deb 16 January 1989 vol 145 c24W
Mr. Atkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the recent pollution of the south coast by oil.

Mr. Moynihan

[holding answer 12 January 1989]: I refer my hon. Friend to the statement made by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Surrey, South-West (Mrs. Bottomley), in reply to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) on 10 January 1989 at column 510.