§ Mr. Andrew WelshTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when the hazardous waste inspectorate will publish its fourth annual report for 1989; and if he will make a statement.
§ Lord-James Douglas-HamiltonThe hazardous waste inspectorate's (HWI) terms of reference required it to publish reports periodically rather than annually. The last report, published in June 1988, covered the whole of the United Kingdom.
In April 1987 the HWI in England and Wales became part of Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution (HMIP) whose report does not cover Scotland. The Scottish Development Department is preparing a separate Scottish HWI report which it intends to publish before the end of 1990.