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Housing Finance
Mr. William Powell : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the total outstanding housing revenue debt at 31 March 1991, the unredeemed reserved part of capital receipts at 31 March 1990 and 31 March 1991 and the total of housing revenue account 1990- 91 in year receipts applied to debt redemption in that year.
Mr. Yeo : The reserved part of capital receipts was £4.2 billion at 31 March 1990 and £5.1 billion at 31 March 1991. Information about the total outstanding housing revenue account debt at 31 March 1991 is not yet complete. It is not possible to say how much of the in-year receipts are applied to debt redemption because there is no need for authorities' accounts to relate debt redemption to particular receipts.
Rents, Yorkshire
Mr. O'Brien : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has on the level of rents in (a) Wakefield, (b) Leeds, (c) Kirklees, (d) Bradford and (e) Calderdale.
Mr. Yeo : The latest available information on average local authority rents per dwelling for the financial year 1991-92 is as follows :
|£ per week
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Wakefield |20.22
Leeds |18.70
Kirkless |24.36
Bradford |25.98
Calderdale |24.93
Average annual rents for fair rent tenancies re-registered in 1990-91 and the first quarter 1991 for the West Yorkshire area are published in Department of the Environment Statistical Bulletin (91)3, which is in the Library. This publication also gives details of rents in housing benefit cases referred to rent officers under the Housing Act 1988.
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Rating Appeals
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many appeals were settled since 1 April 1990 in respect of (a) the pre- national non-domestic rates valuations and (b) the NNDR valuations ; and how many rating appeals in each category are still outstanding.
Mr. Portillo : The information concerning appeals to valuation and community charge tribunals in England is as follows :
|Cleared between |Outstanding at
|1 April 1990 and|31 December 1991
|31 December 1991
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1973 Rating appeals |182,000 |4,000
1990 Non-domestic |142,000 |589,000
rating appeals
Appeals cleared relate to those heard and decided by tribunals or withdrawn or agreed prior to or after hearing.
Many of the 4,000 outstanding 1973 appeals were awaiting decisions by the Court of Appeal in related cases. Most of the 1990 non-domestic rating appeals were not received in tribunals until towards the end of 1990-91.
Leigh Barton
Mr. Steen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how much public expenditure has been incurred on Leigh Barton ; and for how many years it has been in his ownership ;
(2) how many years Leigh Barton, near Churstow has been closed to the public ; and when it is planned to be reopened.
Mr. Yeo : Leigh Barton was purchased from Devon county council by the Secretary of State for the Environment in April 1974, at a cost of £4,850, and has been in English Heritage's guardianship since 1984. To date, the total estimated costs of maintenance and repair at the property amount to about £300,000.
SSA, Cumbria
Dr. Cunningham : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received about the methodology used by his Department in calculating the standard spending assessment for Cumbria ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Portillo : Cumbria submitted detailed written representations about the proposals for 1992-93 and also brought a delegation to see my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. The points made by Cumbria were given careful consideration, as were all other representations. Cumbria's standard spending assessment increased by £0.266 million between that issued for consultation purposes and the settlement figure.
Flora and Fauna
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for England and Wales the number of species of (a) flora and (b) fauna that have become extinct since the introduction of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
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Mr. Baldry : It is probable that no species of flora and five species of fauna have become extinct in England and Wales since the introduction of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the future of (a) the 100 acre site of special scientific interest at Birkham wood, Harrogate, (b) the 25 acre site of special scientific interest at Shirley Pool and Rushley Moor wetlands, (c) the 2,000 acre site of special scientific interest at Ingleborough moors, Yorkshire and (d) the 1,000 acre site of special scientific interest at Yorkshire Wolds Chalk Grasslands.
Mr. Baldry : I will write to the hon. Member with the details requested.
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will introduce legislation to prevent any developments which damage sites of special scientific interest.
Mr. Baldry : Additional safeguards for SSSIs were announced in DOE circular 1/92. These measures together with other statutory provisions set out in the Countryside Act 1968, Wildlife and Countryside Acts of 1981 and 1985 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ensure that the special interest of these sites is taken fully into account when development proposals are considered.
Departmental Research and Advice
Mr. French : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all research and advice commissioned by his Department from external organisations or consultants, in connection with part II of the Local Government Bill indicating (a) the terms of reference, (b) the cost, (c) when the work was completed and (d) if the work will be published.
Mr. Portillo : We have commissioned CSL Ltd. to advise on the costs and benefits the Local Government Commission might take into account in assessing cases for structural change, and the means by which such costs and benefits could be measured. We hope to make CSL's report available soon.
We have also commissioned social researcher Mr. Alan Hedges to look at means of developing and refining criteria which might be applied to the assessment of community identity and loyalties, and which might be amenable to testing by means of surveys of public habits and attitudes in a given local area ; and the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies in Newcastle university to consider the application of geographical information systems in the definition of community boundaries with a view to developing a suitable methodology which the Commission might use. We will decide how to disseminate the results of those studies when we have the final reports.
It is not our policy to reveal the value of individual contracts.
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Community Care
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he is taking to ensure correlation between local authority community care plans and future standard spending assessments for personal social services.
Mr. Portillo : Standard spending assessments are the Government's measure of the cost of providing a standard level of service across all local authorities taking account of their social, geographic and demographic characteristics and the services for which they are responsible. Community care plans reflect locally determined service priorities within available resources.
Soft Landscaping
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will issue a planning policy guidance note along the lines proposed by the Horticultural Traders Association dealing with soft landscaping in association with development proposals.
Mr. Yeo : Trees, plants and shrubs can enhance the appearance of developments and I commend the action of the Horticultural Traders Association in bringing this to the attention of local planning authorities.
Personal Social Services
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what account is taken of specific needs which have to be met on a regional rather than local level in the calculation of standard spending assessments for personal social services.
Mr. Portillo : A personal social services standard spending assessment is allocated to each social services authority in England based on its social and demographic characteristics. The standard spending assessment covers the full range of social services not supported by specific grant.
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what account he takes of existing levels of service in the calculation of standard spending assessments for the personal social services.
Mr. Portillo : The standard spending assessment for personal social services is based on demographic and social indicators which best reflect the cost of providing a standard level of service. It takes no direct account of existing levels of service provision.
Combustion Plants
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what was the deadline by which large combustion plants should have been granted their licence from Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ; and how many plants had been licensed by that date ;
(2) how many power stations owned by PowerGen and National Power have received the required licence from Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ; and if he will make a statement ;
(3) if he will list all large combustion plants covered by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 indicating the
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owners ; and whether they have been granted the licence, required under the Act from Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution.Mr. Baldry : Applications for authorisation of Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution under part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 were received for 203 combustion processes of which 150 are large combustion plants ; a list of these plants has been placed in the Library of the House. These should be determined within four months of receipt, or within such longer period as may be agreed with the applicant. But, in cases where commercial confidentiality has been claimed in respect of information contained in an application, this period of four months does not begin until that matter has been resolved, at which time public advertisement and consultation can take place.
On receipt of the applications, HMIP found that additional information was required from all applicants, including PowerGen and National Power, to enable the determination of their authorisation to proceed. In seeking such information, in accordance with schedule 1 of the 1990 Act, the four-month deadline for determining applications was extended, by varying periods. Nineteen authorisations for large combustion plant had been granted by 4 February 1992. PowerGen and National Power originally requested information in 34 of their applications (14 PowerGen and 20 National Power) to be considered as commercially confidential. HMIP refused these requests and the applicants appealed to the Secretary of State against the decision. Appeals (by National Power) in two cases were withdrawn at the end of 1991 and determination of those applications is now proceeding. Thirty-two cases remain subject to appeal.
Until the applications are determined, all existing plants remain subject to control by HMIP under existing air pollution legislation.
Waste Recycling
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the measures undertaken by his Department to achieve the target set for the proportion of household waste to be recycled by 2000 ; and what is the estimated impact of each measure.
Mr. Baldry : I refer the hon. Member to the document "This Common Inheritance--The First Year Report", published in September 1991. Since then we have published a report on deposit and refund systems for beverage containers and batteries. We have commissioned a major study of economic instruments necessary to encourage the recovery of resources from waste. These reports, together with the waste recycling plans now being prepared by every waste collection authority in the country, will enable us to assess the extent of any further action that we will need to take in order to achieve our aim of minimising waste and the target of recycling 25 per cent. of household waste by the end of the decade.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the initiatives undertaken by his Department to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and indicate the estimated reduction for each initiative by (a) 2000 and (b) 2005.
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Mr. Baldry : The Environment White Paper "This Common Inheritance" (Cm 1200) set out the Government's strategy and a first tranche of measures towards Britain's conditional target of returning CO emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2005. The first year report (Cm 1655) set out progress with this strategy.The savings from this first tranche of measures have been taken into account in the latest scenarios for United Kingdom CO emissions announced by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Energy, on 6 December 1991. Details of these new scenarios are being prepared for publication.
Housing Management
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment on what date he will publish his consultation paper on extending compulsory competitive tendering to housing management.
Sir George Young : I expect to publish it shortly.
Kent Rent Arrears
Mr. Dunn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the rent arrears of each local housing authority in the county of Kent, as a percentage and in cash terms ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Yeo : I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my hon. Friend, the Minister for Housing and Planning on 3 February 1992 to my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) at column 4.
Local Authority Housing (Applications)
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authorities do not accept housing applications from young single people.
Mr. Yeo : The available information on local authority waiting lists does not separately identify young single people. Under the homelessness legislation, local authorities have a duty to accept responsibility to secure accommodation for young single people who are unintentionally homeless and judged to be in priority need because they are vulnerable. In addition, in the last two quarters a total of 62 local authorities reported securing permanent accommodation under the homelessness legislation, for other young single people.
Ordnance Survey
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if there are any proposals to change the 1991-92 cash limit and the net running cost limit for ordnance survey.
Mr. Baldry : Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary spring supplementary estimate, the cash limit for ordnance survey, class VIII, vote 12 will be increased by £500,000 from £21,089,000 to £21,589,000. The increase will be charged to the reserve and not therefore added to the planned total of public expenditure. The increase to the cash limit is due to a greater payover of value added tax (VAT) to Her Majesty's Customs and Excise caused by a reduction in capital and running cost expenditure for which OS can reclaim VAT together with the higher sales of OS products which attract VAT.
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In addition, the supplementary estimate is required to reflect a shortfall of £2,100,000 in the receipts from the sales of maps and public sector repayment services due to a reduction in the demand for OS products. This shortfall is to be offset by a reduction in capital expenditure of £2,100,000 with no effect on the cash limit. As a result of the shortfall in receipts the net running cost limit will be increased by £2,070,000 from £21,730,000 to £23,800,000.Cash Limits
Sir Michael Neubert : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has any changes to announce to his Department's cash limits and running costs limits for 1991-92.
Mr. Heseltine : Yes. Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the following changes will be made :
(i) The cash limit for class VIII, vote 2 (miscellaneous housing administration and grants) will be increased by £1,700,000 from £195, 907,000 to £197,607,000. The increase reflects a transfer a £1,700, 000 from the non-voted provision for housing action trusts for borrowing from the national loans funds to grant-in-aid which is voted in estimates. In additions, the running costs provision for rent assessment panels will be increased by £43,000 to £1,904,000 to support the provision of information technology to the panels. This increase in running costs provision will be met from equivalent savings within the running costs provision on class VIII, vote 8, so that the Department's running costs limit remains unaffected by this change ;
(ii) The DOE/HC non-voted cash limit will be increased by £950,000 from £1,520,925,000 to £1,521,875,000. This increase results from full take up of entitlement of £950,000 under the end year flexibility scheme for capital projects concerned with schemes for the homeless ;
(iii) The DOE/UA non-voted cash limit will be increased by £6,617, 000 from £883,814,000 to £890,431,000. This includes increased grant- in-aid of £8,850,000 to the Black Country development corporation for the black country spine road. This increase will be offset by a corresponding reduction in the Department of Transport's cash limit for class VII, vote 1 (national roads, England). In addition, £13,280,000 is required for various projects for other development corporations, to increase resources for local authority sector derelict land grant, and to make payments of urban programme grant and city action team grant where works have progressed faster than anticipated. The costs will be met, in part, from offsetting savings of £12,000,000 on the city grant programme and other savings totalling £3,513,000 from non local authority derelict land grant, urban development grant and inner cities research.
(iv) The cash limit for class VIII, vote 5 (central environmental services, etx) will be reduced by £9,000,000 from £317,840,000 to £308,840,000. The decrease reflects reduced grant-in-aid requirements by the National Rivers Authority.
(v) The cash limit for class VIII, vote 6, (royal palaces, royal parks, historic buildings, etc) will be increased by £71,000 from £176,484,000 to £176,555,000. The increase of £71,000 is required to cover the cost of new charges by the Civil Service Commission for services provided to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and by the Treasury solicitors for services provided to the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission. These increases are offset by equivalent transfers of provision from class VIII, vote 8 (Department of the Environment : administration). In addition, the running costs provision for royal parks will be
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increased by £600,000 mainly to meet the redundancy and consultancy costs associated with contracting out gardening services. This increase in provision for royal parks will be met from savings within the vote, but the running cost provision on class VIII, vote 8 will be reduced by an equivalent amount so the Department's running cost limit remains unaffected by this change ;(vi
The cash limit for class VIII, vote 8 (Department of the Environment : administration) will be increased by £201,000 from £188,417,000 to £188,618,000. This increase includes a transfer of £200, 000 from class VIII, vote 3 (urban aid and derelict land reclamation, England) for costs associated with Manchester's bid for Olympics in the year 2000, and a transfer of £71,000 to class VIII, vote 6 (royal palaces, royal parks, historic buildings, etc) as outlined above. The Department's running cost limit will be reduced by £4,541,000 from £190,061,000 to £185,520,000. The decrease includes reallocation of resources from running costs to non-running costs within this vote, and the equivalent offset to the running cost increases for rent assessment panels on class VIII, vote 2 and for royal parks on class VIII, vote 6, as outlined above ;
(vii
The cash limit for class VIII, vote 9 (revenue support grant, payment of non-domestic rates, valuation office rating and valuation services, etc., England) will be decreased by £52,686,000 from £22, 759,344,000 to £22,706,658,000. The decrease reflects lower costs in payments to the valuation office, for implementation work on the council tax ; and
(viii
The DOE/LACAP non-voted cash limit will be increased by £2,710,000 from £3,016,492,000 to £3,019,202,000. This represents an increase of £3,000,000 for projects to help the homeless, partly offset by a decrease of £290,000 due to lower than expected take up of estate action grant.
( These increases will be charged to the reserve and not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
2 Marsham Street, London
Sir Philip Goodhart : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has reached a decision on the future of 2 Marsham street, London ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Heseltine : We have decided to knock it down. No. 2 Marsham street is a Crown building which houses most of the headquarters staff of my Department and of the Department of Transport. The building is in need of major repair. Following detailed technical studies I am satisfied that repairs on the scale necessary would not be desirable. I have therefore decided that the existing building should be demolished. Options for the future of the site including sale, are now being considered.
The decision to demolish 2 Marsham street means that alternative accommodation has to be found for some 3,000 staff in my Department and the Department of Transport. The Secretary of State for Transport and I are considering our Departments' needs and how they can best be met. For my part, I have asked my officials to draw up proposals for moving a substantial number of the present Department of the Environment Headquarters posts to other locations, reducing my Department's requirement for accommodation in the central Westminster area. I have asked them particularly to examine the opportunities and value for money of relocation to docklands, where I am considering establishing a significant Departmental presence.
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Derelict Land Grant
Mr. Carttiss : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what resources are being made available under the derelict land grant programme in 1992-93 ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir George Young : The resources available in 1992-93 for derelict land reclamatgion under the derelict land grant programme will be £106 million. This represents an increase of 21 per cent. on this year's provision. £9 million of this total has been earmarked for reclamation schemes carried out by private sector companies and voluntary organisations such as groundwork trusts. The remainder has been allocated for reclamation schemes operated by local authorities.
The reclamation of derelict and often seriously contaminated land plays a vital role in recycling previously developed land and returning it to beneficial use. This helps to improve the environment and ensure that the use of greenfield sites for development is kept to a minimum. Since 1979 DLG has funded the reclamation of 15,500 hectares and I expect a further 1,500 hectares to be reclaimed next year.
New priorities and guidelines for DLG were announced in May 1991 introducing greater flexibility in the type of reclamation schemes which can be supported by DLG throughout England. Local authorities applying for DLG are being encouraged to prepare reclamation strategies which are expected to show an increased emphasis on reclamation for environmental and amenity improvement.
In urban and inner city areas we will continue to give priority to reclaiming sites for use by industry and commerce, and for housing provision ; providing a demand for these sites has been clearly demonstrated. But environmental improvement can also make an important contribution to urban regeneration and a large number of DLG reclamation schemes designed to provide a new amenity and recreational provision in urban areas is planned to start in 1992-93.
On the urban fringe and in rural areas, DLG will also be widely used for environmental improvement. A range of such schemes is planned for next year which will include the use of derelict land for community forests, the reclamation of derelict canals for amenity use and the conversion of derelict railways into long distance footpaths and cycleways.
I have also decided how the total resources available for DLG should be divided between regions and this distribution is given in the table. Most DLG will go to the northern and midland regions where the concentration of dereliction is greatest. The north-west region and Yorkshire and Humberside will receive £21 million each, (representing increases of 15 per cent. and 25 per cent. respectively compared with last year's allocations). The west midlands wil also receive £20.5 million (14 per cent. up on last year), including £9.21 million for investigative and infilling work in connection with the disused limestone mines in that region.
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Table 1 Derelict Land Grant Programme:
Distribution of resources by region for 1992-93
Region |Allocation |Percentage
|for 1992-93|increase on
|(£ million)|this year's
|allocation
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Northern |12.4 |14
North West |21.0 |15
Merseyside |8.6 |13
Yorkshire and Humberside |21.0 |25
West Midlands |20.5 |14
East Midlands |13.0 |21
London |2.0 |43
South West |4.5 |72
South East |1.2 |77
Eastern |1.0 |19
Unallocated |0.8 |-
|------- |-------
Total |106.0 |21
The number of rolling programmes of reclamation has also been substantially increased for 1992-93. In total there will be 26 in operation accounting for £50.5 million of DLG expenditure, with five new programmes starting in Northumberland, Sunderland, Durham, the Croal/Irwell valley and St Helens. Also project Furness will be extended to the whole of the local authority area. Rolling programmes are subject to a review after three years of operation and, following such reviews this year, the Leeds/Liverpool canal corridor programme will be extended to include Rossendale and the major programme at Salford quays will be extended for another three years to complete reclamation there.
Reclamation in areas subject to colliery closures has been an important priority for DLG and will continue to be so in 1992-93. £21 million of DLG resources are planned to be spent in coalfield areas. DLG is now being used in these areas to concentrate on collieries closed before March 1990. British Coal has agreed to take financial responsibility for the reclamation of collieries closing since then and the combined effect of these twin programmes will add increased momentum to the pace of reclamation and regeneration in the coalfields.
Priority is also being given under the DLG programme to dealing with derelict sites which are also badly contaminated. The reclamation costs for such sites are often much higher than average, but need to be dealt with urgently for reasons of public health and safety. In total it is likely that about £25 million of DLG will be committed towards such major schemes, involving seriously contaminated sites, on which work is likely to start next year.
Local Government Finance
Mr. Andrew Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which 20 local authorities have the most outstanding community charge payments ; and what are the figures.
Mr. Portillo [holding answer 4 February 1992] : Information is available about the arrears of community charge at 31 March 1991 for 358 out of 366 charging authorities. Of those authorities for which information is available the following have the highest arrears in terms of amounts outstanding.
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|£ million
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Birmingham |60.4
Lambeth |50.1
Brent |32.4
Bristol |31.2
Leeds |31.2
Hackney |27.7
Sheffield |26.0
Haringey |23.7
Leicester |23.3
Ealing |22.1
Southwark |21.6
Newham |21.5
Islington |20.3
Nottingham |18.2
Waltham Forest |17.4
Camden |16.5
Sandwell |16.3
Wirral |15.5
Newcastle upon Tyne |14.4
Walsall |13.9
It should be noted that no information is available for Liverpool, Manchester, Coventry, Northampton, Oxford, Derwentside, Newbury and Oswestry.
Contaminated Land
Sir Trevor Skeet : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a right of appeal to a landowner or occupier from the decision of a local authority including his land on a register of potentially contaminated sites and for deregistration to be undertaken in the event of appropriate clean-up measures having been taken.
Mr. Trippier [holding answer 4 February 1992] : Local authorities compiling registers under section 143 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 will be required to record all land which is, or has been, subject to specific contaminative uses to be listed in regulations. An objection to the registration of a site could thus be based only on a factual question concerning the site's use, and therefore no formal appeal procedure is considered necessary. However, an authority which refused to correct an error would lay itself open to judicial review or civil legal action.
Under section 143 sites cannot be deregistered after treatment, but registers will record details of any investigation or treatment which may have been carried out. Treatment rarely removes all contamination, and purchasers, planners and developers will continue to require information on the history and treatment of sites. Contamination from a site may also affect other land or water, and purchasers of affected land and bodies responsible for environmental protection will need to refer to registers for information on the sources of such contamination.
In addition, deregistration of sites after treatment would have to be carried out by the local authorities responsible for registers. They would thus give an implicit assurance that the site in question was free from contamination. This would raise questions of liability if contamination was later found still to be present. It is unlikely that many authorities would be willing to give such an undertaking.
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Water Pollution
Mr. Andy Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many successful prosecutions the National Rivers Authority has achieved since its inception, for pollution of (a) the River Trent and (b) other rivers and seas ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Baldry : I understand that between 1 September 1989 and 30 November 1991 the National Rivers Authority--NRA--brought 1,104 successful prosecutions for water pollution offences in England and Wales. Of these 239 arose in the Severn Trent region. Information on prosecutions for pollution of individual rivers is not centrally available, although details could be obtained from the NRA's regional office.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Companies (Trade Aid)
Mr. Tom Clarke : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which company or companies were the beneficiaries of the aid and trade provision made available for projects involving (a) Turkey, (b) Morocco, (c) Panama, (d) Jordan, (e) India, (f) China and (g) Malaysia for 1991.
Mrs. Chalker : In 1991 aid and trade provision funds were disbursed in respect of projects in these countries involving United Kingdom lead companies :
(a) Turkey
British Gas
Amec International Construction
TQ International
Hallam Associates
Thames Water International
(b) Morocco
John Brown Engineering
(c) Panama
John Brown Engineering
(d) Jordan
Ransome and Rapier
(e) India
GEC Turbine Generators
Boving
(f) China
GEC Turbine Generators
Plessey Controls
The MVA Consultancy
Dunlop International Projects
Balfour Beatty
Metrotec Group
Mott MacDonald
Davy McKee (Poole)
British Shipbuilders
Platt Saco Lowell UK
GPT International
Snamprogetti
(g) Malaysia
John Laing International
Balfour Beatty
Sir William Halcrow and Partners
Acer John Taylor
Transmark International
Knight Piesold and Partners
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