Oral Answers to Questions — Sewage Discharge

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 January 1991.

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Photo of Mr Win Griffiths Mr Win Griffiths , Bridgend 12:00, 30 January 1991

Does the Minister agree that after 12 years of oil-rich Tory rule, it is a scandal that Lancaster university can report this week that children entering the sea at Blackpool are five time more likely to contract diarrhoea and three times more likely to suffer from vomiting than children who stay on the beach? Why should children bathing at Blackpool have to suffer those health hazards for at least four more years? Does not that report highlight the disgrace of the Minister's visit to Brussels just before Christmas when he tried to get the case against Blackpool dropped or suspended in the European Court of Justice? Will not the report make the Commissioner change his mind?