§ Mr. AlisonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will instruct the Environment Agency and the National Rivers Authority to review the Yorkshire Water Services' plans for an accelerated programme for dealing with crude sewage outfalls at certain Yorkshire coastal villages and to assess whether Cawood, in North Yorkshire, should be added to the list of villages in the programme. [11656]
§ Mr. ClappisonThe National Rivers Authority was subsumed into the Environment Agency for England and Wales on 1 April 1996.
Yorkshire Water Services' plans to accelerate sewage treatment schemes voluntarily at certain coastal villages take account of the agency's views. The assessment of the agency is that the discharge at Cawood has a lesser effect which would not justify the scheme being given priority in advance of action to meet the requirements of the urban waste water treatment directive by the deadline of 2005.