§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what communications he has received from the Wales regional office of the National Rivers Authority with respect to the classification of the proposed impoundment162W at Cardiff bay as a sensitive water in the at risk of eutrophication category, under the urban waste water directive of the European Community; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Gwilym JonesThe National Rivers Authority has yet to submit to my right hon. Friend its proposed list of candidate sensitive areas for Wales in connection with the implementation of the EC urban waste water treatment directive. The NRA has provided its current working list of candidate eutrophic sensitive areas which includes Cardiff bay, assuming the barrage is constructed. A copy of the list has been placed in the Library of the House pursuant to the reply my hon. Friend the Minister for the the Environment and Countryside gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Mr. Bowden) on 27 July, column905.