HC Deb 20 December 1990 vol 183 c270W
Mr. Gould

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what evidence he has on the degree to which small waste oil burning appliances, used as a source of heat in garages and workshops, are contributors to airborne pollution.

Mr. Heseltine

There is only limited evidence of the scale of the problem, but appliances of this type are known to be sources of a variety of atmospheric pollutants, including lead and other heavy metals, hydrogen, chloride, NOx, and SO2.