§ Mr. LeslieTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Riverside (Mrs. Ellman), 22 December 1997,Official Report, columns 439–40, when he will launch the consultation on radioactively contaminated land. [32077]
§ Mr. MeacherI am pleased to announce that I am today launching a consultation on radioactively contaminated land, jointly with my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales.
We are seeking views on the structure and principles that should underlie a regulatory regime for radioactively contaminated land. Copies of the consultation paper have been sent to the Chief Executives and Chief Environmental Health Officers of all local authorities, and to other interested parties, and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House. Responses to the consultation are requested by 1 June 1998.