HC Deb 14 June 1994 vol 244 c333W
Mr. Battle

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 12 April,Official Report, column 132–33, on which matters of widespread interest his Department received more than 9,500 responses; and whether those matters were presented in the form of a Green Paper.

Mr. Baldry

The consultation exercise that started in November 1992 relating to the authorisations for radioactive waste discharges at Sellafield drew approximately 80,000 responses; a second round of consultation based on the justification for nuclear fuel processing at the site, launched in August 1993, drew some 42,000 individual letters plus petitions containing about 25,000 signatures. Neither of these matters was presented in a Green Paper. The consultation exercise, launched with the November 1993 publication, "London: Making the Best Better", which was not a Green Paper, drew almost 11,000 responses.

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