No separate assessment of the emissions from burning sleepers has been undertaken: the focus has been on the pyres as a whole.
At present, it is estimated that the amount of dioxins released from the burning on pyres to date is about 10–20g.
Will he publish the results and provide an assessment now of the health risks from pyres?
The only other alternatives are pyres or burning in open fields.
Taking all those factors together, will there be an end to the pyres and to the necessity for the huge burial grounds?
I understand what he says about the resistance to the pyres.
We do not want to go back to using funeral pyres.
We have already made it clear in our interim contingency plan that we would not consider pyres for the disposal of animals.
