Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 5 July 2001.
Alan Beith
Shadow Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to compensate individual households and communities adversely affected by the Druridge Bay burning site and the Widdrington carcase disposal site in Northumberland.
Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
holding answer
There is no statutory provision for compensation for any inconvenience caused to residents by the disposal of animal carcases.
Yes2 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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