HC Deb 12 March 1991 vol 187 cc488-9W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the emissions of particles contaminated with legionella feeli and E. coli organisms from power station cooling towers.

Mr. Forth

No definitive data on the microbiological emissions in the drift from power station cooling towers have been produced in the United Kingdom. However, I am not aware of any epidemiological evidence for cases of human disease associated with the emission of these or any other organisms from such towers.