§ Dr. Kim HowellsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he is taking to ensure that his technical guidance accompanying the introduction of integrated pollution control will recognise and promote the environmental and economic benefits of combined heat and power.
§ Mr. TrippierThe chief inspector's technical guidance will focus on the requirements for authorisation under part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. However, in seeking to establish the best practicable means not entailing excessive cost for preventing, minimising or rendering harmless polluting substances, and the best practicable environmental option to protect the environment as a whole, the guidance might identify the need to include conditions in an authorisation which an operator could in fact meet by the use of combined heat and power.