HC Deb 06 November 1989 vol 159 c445W
Dr. Kim Howells

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if, when he next meets the Welsh regional chairman of the National Rivers Authority, he will request him to address as a priority, stopping the Welsh water authority from depositing raw sewage from its treatment plants into the rivers, estuaries and bays of Wales.

Mr. Ian Grist

All of Dwr Cymru's sewage treatment plants have consents. It is for the National Rivers Authority to determine what to do if the consents are breached.

The NRA has already been asked to set in hand an urgent review of the way in which discharge consents are set and the way in which compliance with these consents is assessed.