To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement concerning his consultations with the chairman of the National Rivers Authority regarding the implementation within the United Kingdom of the 1985 European Community municipal waste water treatment directive.
The European Community's proposed municipal waste water treatment directive was adopted in May 1991 as the urban waste water treatment directive. The department has set up an advisory group to assist in the task of implementing the directive in the United Kingdom. The National Rivers Authority is represented on this group.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he proposes to issue guidance on the definition of sensitive waters for the purposes of the implementation in the United Kingdom of the 1985 European Community municipal waste water treatment directive.
I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave him on 13 January 1992 at column 432.