§ Mr. BakerTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what recent measurements he has584W made of the aquatic environment off the Sussex coast to identify the possible presence of radioactive material emanating from Cap la Hague. [124231]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 5 June 2000]: My Department, until recently, carried out regular monitoring and assessment of the radioactive contamination of marine foodstuffs and environmental indicator materials within the English Channel. This work transferred to the Food Standards Agency on 1 April this year.
The results of this work were published in my Department's report "Radioactivity in Food and the Environment", the last of which was for 1998. The low levels of man-made radioactivity found in the English Channel cannot be attributed with any certainty to particular sources.