HC Deb 18 April 1990 vol 170 cc868-9W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To 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-Amory

Separately available figures for reported pollution incidents where nothing was found relate to the years 1986, 1987 and 1988 and are as follows:

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 Wardell

To 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-Amory

The information requested is not available.

Mr. Gareth Wardell

To 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-Amory

The 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 followsThe 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.