HC Deb 17 October 1989 vol 158 cc113-4W
Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if his Department had any representation at the conference on raising standards in wastes manage-ment: future costs and benefits, held at Lancaster university on 21 September; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

I represented my right hon. Friend and delivered the opening address at the conference.

Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if his Department was represented at the fifth European summer school on radioactive waste manage-ment, held on 17 to 20 July, at Christ's college, Cambridge.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

A principal inspector from Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution delivered a paper to the 1989 European summer school in a personal capacity.