§ Mr. Robert B. JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will list the waste disposal authorities and sites for which copies of site licences under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 have been requested by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution and not supplied
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyHer Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has not asked waste disposal authorities to provide copies of all their waste disposal licences. The information, from the registers of waste disposal licences maintained by the waste disposal authorities, and to form it into a computer data base. This is periodically up-dated.
Waste disposal authorities have occasionally been requested by HMIP to provide copies of specific licences or samples of licences. In general such requests have been met. There have been a few occasions when such a request has not been acted on Without a search of all correspondence files it is not possible to give a list of such occasions