§ Mr. BayleyTo 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. AtkinsThis is a matter for the National Rivers Authority and Yorkshire Water.
§ Mr. BayleyTo 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. AtkinsThis is a matter for Yorkshire Water.
§ Mr. BayleyTo 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. AtkinsMy Department does not have this information.
§ Mr. BayleyTo 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. AtkinsThese 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 312W
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