HC Deb 19 January 2000 vol 342 c486W
Mr. Key

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence further to his answer to the hon. Member for Salisbury of 11 November 1999,Official Report, columns 707–08W, on work at Nancekuke, if any additional information has come to light. [104505]

Mr. Spellar

I refer my hon. Friend to the answers given to my hon. Friend the Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Ms Atherton) on 11 January 2000,Official Report, columns 125–26W.

Ms Atherton

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what research his Department has(a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on substances buried at the Nancekuke base in Cornwall. [105606]

Mr. Spellar

A Land Quality Assessment is currently under way at RAF Portreath, formerly Nancekuke, in line with the Ministry of Defence's policy of undertaking such assessments over a 10 year period from 1996. As part of this work, surface soil and water samples have been taken for laboratory analysis. This analysis has revealed no signs of contamination from toxic agents.

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