§ Mr. Gareth WardellTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will serve a notice on the Welsh region of the National Rivers Authority requiring the stretch of the River Loughor which is categorised as level 3 of the national water classification scheme to meet a system of statutory water quality objectives.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe National Rivers Authority (NRA) recently published its recommendations for a scheme of water quality classification for setting statutory water quality objectives. The authority's recommendations are currently being considered by the Government and we expect to be consulting widely in due course about our own proposals for implementing the scheme with the aim of starting to introduce statutory water quality objectives gradually from 1993.
In the meantime the NRA is determined to prevent any deterioration in the quality of the River Loughor and to achieve improvements, where possible, consistent with the existing non-statutory river quality objectives.