Member

I want to raise just one concern, which is about severely contaminated sites. Those of us who live in pre-industrial areas are only too aware of the great cost of remediation and I have some concern that when the Minister was talking about brownfield sites, she mentioned that some may be too difficult or too contaminated to deal with. I want to press her on that, because it would imply that some severely contaminated sites will never be remediated, and that cannot be right. I may have misheard or misunderstood, so perhaps the Minister will explain further on that point.