Water Abstraction

HC Deb 13 November 1991 vol 198 cc546-7W

Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the statutory instruments relevant to the abstraction of water.

Mr. Baldry

The annual "Index to Government Orders" gives details of all the public general statutory instruments which are in force including those relevant to water abstraction. The annual volumes of statutory instruments contain, at the end of the last volume for each year, a classified list of local statutory instruments.

Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment to what changes the conditions governing the abstraction of water have been subject since 1 January 1990.

Mr. Baldry

The abstraction of water is regulated both by statutory provisions and by the terms of the licence for each abstraction granted by the National Rivers Authority or, for the authority itself, by the Department. The only changes in the statutory provisions have been in the temporary drought orders made under section 131 of the Water Act 1989. Changes in licence conditions are specific to each licence.