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Legislation is obviously one of the ways by which tight control is kept on environmental matters relating to public health. This programme is about the way such legislation arises, is drafted withi...n a Government department and the political constraints on its implementation. In the programme Dr. Andrew Porteous, Course Team Chairman, interviews Gordon Oakes, MP, Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment - a Junior Minister, in the present Administration, and Miss Kruse, Assistant Secretary, Department of the Environment - a Civil Servant, about Part 1 of the Control of Pollution Act with special reference to Waste Disposal policy.
Legislation is obviously one of the ways by which tight control is kept on environmental matters relating to public health. This programme is about the way such legislation arises, is drafted withi...n a Government department and the political constraints on its implementation. In the programme Dr. Andrew Porteous, Course Team Chairman, interviews Gordon Oakes, MP, Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment - a Junior Minister, in the present Administration, and Miss Kruse, Assistant Secretary, Department of the Environment - a Civil Servant, about Part 1 of the Control of Pollution Act with special reference to Waste Disposal policy.
| Module code and title: | PT272, Environmental control and public health |
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| Item code: | PT272; 08 |
| First transmission date: | 27-09-1975 |
| Published: | 1975 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:30 |
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| Producer: | David Jackson |
| Contributors: | Gordon Oakes; Andrew Porteous |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Environmental health; Government legislation; Pollution |
| Footage description: | Opening shots show the Department of the Environment offices at 2 Marsham Street. Andrew Porteous interviews Gordon Oakes, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the DoE, who describes the aspects of his job relating to waste disposal, and to Pamela Kruse, Assistant Secretary, Waste Disposal Division, DoE, who describes the practical advantages of Acts of Parliament over other forms of legislation in the control of pollution. Cutting between the two separate interviews, the stages involved in the drafting of legislation are explained. Finally the implementation stages are discussed. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71703 |
| Production number: | 00525_5180 |
| Videofinder number: | 2892 |
| Available to public: | no |
