§ Gregory BarkerTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what costs were incurred in(a) historic and (b) current prices in carrying out the monitoring of nuclear waste discharges to the Irish Sea from the Windscale plant. [69632]
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§ Mr. Meacher[holding answer 17 July 2002]Monitoring of discharges is mainly the responsibility of the operator and so the majority of the costs of monitoring discharges from Windscale (which has been known as Sellafield since the early 1980s) would have fallen to BN FL and its predecessors. No information is held by the Department or by the Environment Agency about the costs of monitoring by operators.