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Mr. Llew Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to paragraph 4·85 of his Department's Annual Report, Cm 4216, what are (a) the cost of the environmental research programme and (b) the names of each of the studies completed or in progress; and if he will place copies of each of these studies in the Library. [81941]
Mr. Jon Owen Jones
Welsh Office expenditure on the programme in 1998–99 was £320,000.
Projects in progress in 1998–99 were:
Air Quality Monitoring Database for Wales
Rural Sulphur Dioxide Monitoring in Wales
Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Monitoring
Welsh Acid Waters Survey Database
Nitrogen Deposition—Impacts on Upland Acid Grassland
Biogeochemical Consequences of Climate Change on Upland Acid Grassland
Environmental Change Network—Snowdonia
UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Inventory for Wales
Rapid On-Site Analysis of Radioactivity in Wales
Countryside Survey 2000—Land Cover Mapping
Monitoring of Stranded Cetaceans
Macrobenthic Survey in Milford Haven
Monitoring of Sheep Dip Compounds in Private Water Supplies
Effects of Sewage Sludge Applications on Soil Microbial Activity and Fertility.
Completed project reports in 1998–99 were:
The Application of Mineral Processing Technology to the Decontamination of Metalliferous Mine Spoil
River Rhymney Minewater Study—Review of Remedial Options
Scoping Study for an INTERREG Marine Information System for the Southern Irish Sea
All-Wales Environmental Health Surveillance Project
Air Quality Monitoring Database—Second Annual Report
DETR Report—Rural Sulphur Dioxide Concentrations in the UK: 1996.
I am arranging for copies of the completed reports to be placed in the Library of the House as soon as possible.