HC Deb 20 December 1994 vol 251 cc1101-2W
Ms Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment pursuant to his answer of 6 December,Official Report, column 134, if he will publish the results of the monitoring of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and oxygen, and of the samples and analysis of heavy metals and dioxins, being produced in the trials of substitute fuels at Redland Aggregates plant at Thrislington, County Durham.

Mr. Atkins

The results of the monitoring of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, oxygen and dioxins produced in the trials up to 9 November 1994, with substitute fuels at the Redland Aggregates plant at Thrislington, County Durham, are already available on the public registers held by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution at Leeds, and at the offices of Sedgefield district council in Spennymoor and the National Rivers Authority in Gosforth.

Samples for heavy metal analysis have been taken, and when the results are available, they will also be placed on the public registers.

Carbon monoxide monitors are already installed on the plant as part of the standard operational control. Results obtained prior to IPC authorisation from these monitors can be made available to the public under the Environmental Information Regulations, SI 1992 No. 3240.