HC Deb 14 January 1994 vol 235 cc311-2W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what agreements the National Rivers Authority has made with Yorkshire Water(a) on levels of pollution entering the Yorkshire Ouse system from sewage treatment works and (b) on increasing abstraction of water from the Ouse system; and how these two sets of agreements are linked.

Mr. Atkins

This is a matter for the National Rivers Authority and Yorkshire Water.

Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was Yorkshire Water's 1992 estimate of the cost of transferring water from Kielder reservoir via the River Tees to Elvington on the River Derwent.

Mr. Atkins

This is a matter for Yorkshire Water.

Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the National Rivers Authority's 1993 estimate of the cost of transferring Kielder water into the Yorkshire grid system.

Mr. Atkins

My Department does not have this information.

Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how much the National Rivers Authority paid to Sir William Halcrow and Partners for its study of water resources in the Yorkshire region, published in October 1993;

(2) what advice the National Rivers Authority's fisheries scientists have given to the National Rivers Authority's water resources division about the consequences of transferring Kielder water via the Rivers Whisk, Swale and Ouse.

Mr. Atkins

These are matters of day-to-day management for the National Rivers Authority.

Discounted value of all sales
£ thousand
Local Authority 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85
Corby 716 2,837 5,393 4,326 3,711
Daventry 1,643 2,478 2,067 1,995 1,605
East Northamptonshire 757 2,585 1,002 1,013 831
Kettering 721 1,659 1,035 918 1,108
Northampton 1,831 2,861 2,717 2,135 1,381
South Northamptonshire 1,123 2,258 2,628 2,382 1,727
Wellingborough 833 2,592 2,055 1,765 1,962
Discounted value of all sales
£ thousand
1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89
Corby 3,901 3,332 4,998 9,036
Daventry 1,929 n/a 3,740 4,651
East Northamptonshire 1,008 1,720 2,519 4,160
Kettering 1,809 2,754 3,974 5,300
Northampton n/a 5,674 8,961 16,530
South Northamptonshire 1,379 1,829 n/a 5,471
Wellingborough 1,303 2,882 3,617 6,311