§ Mr. BarronTo ask the Secretary of State for Energy what were the findings of the Government-commissioned Harris research survey into attitudes to British Coal's arrangements for the notification of past and proposed mine workings; and if he will place a copy in the Library.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryI refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my hon.Friend the Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart), on 20 April 1990 at column1035.
British Coal intends to introduce on a voluntary basis in February a pilot scheme for individually notifying householders that their property might be affected by subsidence damage as a result of underground mining operations. The intention is that these arrangements will be introduced nationally from June. The recently published Coal Mining Subsidence Bill, once enacted, will make the individual notification of householders a statutory requirement.