HC Deb 13 March 1997 vol 292 cc305-6W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many and what percentage of farms in Northern Ireland are currently classified as organic; and if he will make a statement. [19858]

The matter will continue to be investigated, as part of a process of elimination, by the Water Service in conjunction with the Ards Borough Council's Environmental Health Department. This liaison is on the basis that while Water Service considers its infrastructure is not the source of the smell problem this can best be proven definitively by further testing of the sewer system on the next occasion the problem is generally manifested in the area.