To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what initiatives he will take to ensure that beaches on the Gower peninsula will meet minimum bathing water quality standards; and if he will make a statement.

In 1990 all seven of the Gower peninsula's identified bathing waters met the mandatory standards for total and faecal coliforms set in the EC bathing waters directive—the standards by which the United Kingdom Government, and the EC, assesses compliance. As part of the investment programme agreed with Dwr Cymru to improve Welsh bathing waters, a sewage treatment works and a long sea outfall are to be built to serve Swansea. This £50 million investment will further improve the quality of all the waters in the area.