§ Mr. Gareth WardellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a revised version of table 3.5(a) in the 1989 Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics which would show a nothing found category separately from the total number of water pollution incidents.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmorySeparately available figures for reported pollution incidents where nothing was found relate to the years 1986, 1987 and 1988 and are as follows:
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1986 1987 1988 Anglian — — — Northumbrian — 53 100 North West 579 705 798 Severn-Trent — — — Southern 147 126 227
1986 1987 1988 South West 145 327 374 Thames 367 745 551 Welsh — — 522 Wessex 241 243 259 Yorkshire 278 415 441 England and Wales 1,757 2,614 3,272
§ Mr. Gareth WardellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in theOfficial Report a revised version of table 3.5(b) in the 1989 Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics, separately distinguishing for each category of pollution the nothing found column.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryThe information requested is not available.
§ Mr. Gareth WardellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will specify in theOfficial Report, what footnote 4 should be for the Welsh Water Authority in table 3.2, on page 27 of his Department's Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics No. 12, 1989.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryThe footnote which was inadvertantly omitted from table 3.2 of the "Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics No. 12" referred to sewage treatment works in the Welsh Water area and should have been as follows
The majority of the works with numerical consents which were not tested for compliance are understood to be small works for which the authority are asking for descriptive consents.