§ Baroness Wilkinsasked Her Majesty's Government:
When they expect to publish the United Kingdom strategy for radioactive discharges. [HL5543]
§ Lord WhittyThe strategy is currently being printed and will be published very shortly. Copies will be placed in the Library. The document will also be available on the DEFRA website.
The strategy demonstrates how the UK will achieve substantial reductions in radioactive discharges in the period to 2020 to implement agreements reached at the 1998 ministerial meeting and subsequent meetings of the OSPAR Commission.
Radioactive discharges in the UK have already been reduced to around 1 per cent of peak levels in the 1970s. This strategy represents the next chapter of what has been an increasingly effective policy to minimise such discharges and shows that the Goverment are determined to maintain the downward pressure and to achieve the objective of the OSPAR radioactive substances strategy.