 The new organisation would exist to aid those efforts, not assume responsibility for them.In March, 2004, the Government announced that it was actively considering setting up a UK-wide service to provide advice to those bodies undertaking decontamination and clean-up after a release, deliberate or accidental, of hazardous materials.In January 2005, the then Minister for the Environment and Agri-environment, Elliot Morley, MP, announced that the Government had spent the last year working out the potential costs and benefits of such a service and now intended to set one up.