Norfolk Beaches (Hansard, 3 March 1993)

§ Mr. Garrett
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will require the National Rivers Authority to reinstate the programme of tests for enteroviruses on all Norfolk beaches in the current year.

§ Mr. Maclean
No. It is not a requirement of the bathing water directive to test for enteroviruses at all bathing waters.

§ Mr. Garrett
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment for what reasons the National Rivers Authority discontinued testing for enteroviruses on all but two Norfolk beaches in 1992.

§ Mr. Maclean
In accordance with the requirements of the bathing water directive, bathing waters which failed the directive's coliform standards in 1991 were sampled by the National Rivers Authority for enteroviruses in 1992. Only two Norfolk bathing waters failed the coliform standards in 1991.