§ Mr. GodmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will discuss the report of the National Radiological Protection Board Assessment of the Radiological Implications of Dumping in Beaufort's Dyke and Other Coastal Waters from the 1950s with representatives of(a) the Clyde Fishermen's Association and (b) other fishermen's organisations; and if he will make a statement. [18640]
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§ Mr. ChisholmThe National Radiological Protection Board report concludes that any doses of radiation from the past dumpings identified would be well within the International Commission on Radiological Protections's recommended limit and that further additional monitoring is not required. However, the Board recommended that advice should be drawn up against the possibility, which it acknowledges is remote, that two anti-static devices dumped off Arran in 1958 might be trawled up and washed ashore. My officials will be in touch with the fishermen's association once that advice has been finalised.