HC Deb 28 March 1991 vol 188 cc538-9W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the measures his Department will take to implement the EC Council of Environment Ministers directive of 18 March regarding(a) strict limits to toxic gas emissions by lorries and buses from 2 July 1992 and (b) the protection of urban towns with populations of more than 2,000 people from polluted waters by the year 2000; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Baldry

The first part of the question is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport. As regards the second, member states are required to draw up programmes to implement the municipal waste water treatment directive by 31 December 1993, and these are currently under discussion with interested parties.