asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will list in the Official Reportthose towns and villages in England from which untreated sewage is discharged either into inland waterways or into the sea, Indicat- ing in which cases treatment schemes are in progress.

My Department does not maintain records of sewage discharges from individual communities, but the River Pollution Survey and the Survey of Discharges of Foul Sewage to the Coastal Waters of England and Wales, copies of which are in the Library, list the number of crude sewage discharges made in each of the former river authority areas, and the Coastal Discharges Survey also shows which of the former sewerage authorities was responsible for each discharge. The planning and progress of individual treatment schemes is a matter for the appropriate water authority.