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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in the context
of the Proposed Changes in Cefas Action Levels for Sea Disposal of Dredged Sediment,
what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of evidence
(a) within the Port of Tyne’s Response to Proposed Changes in CEFAS Action Levels
for Sea Disposal of Dredged Sediment (January 2022) including research work undertaken
by Newcastle University suggesting that the naturally occurring contaminants, especially
zinc and lead, are not in a form which is adversely affecting marine rivers organisms
and (b) from the Environment Agency, who are working in partnership with the Coal
Authority and Defra to implement measures to control inputs of naturally occurring
contaminants in the headwaters as part of the Water and Abandoned Metal Mines Programme.
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