§ Ms LynneTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to the oral answer of 17 May to the hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane),Official Report, column 316, when his Department will publish the findings of the research that it is currently undertaking into the problems of dust, blasting and transport caused by opencast mining. [33501]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThese projects are concerned with all mineral workings, not simply opencast coal. The findings on dust and blasting will be published at the end of this year and in early 1996 respectively. The results of the transport research will be available in late summer 1996.