§ Mr. CranTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to publish Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution's report on investigations into the disposal of wastes from the Capper Pass factory on north Humberside.
The report concludes that there is no evidence from environmental monitoring data, predicted atmospheric dispersion patterns, radiological assessments and epideniological studies to link the reported childhood leukaemia excesses in villages to the west of Hull with discharges to atmosphere of polonium 210 or arsenic from Capper Pass. It also concludes that concentrations of antimony, lead, copper, tin and zinc in the locality are low and unlikely to cause any adverse health effects. Further attention should be given to limiting cadmium discharges, although the concentration of cadmium in the atmosphere close to Capper Pass has steadily reduced since 1978.