§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will take steps to make funds available for remedial action at the landfill site at Moss lane, Rixton, Warrington, to make the site safe, in the light of the evidence of unauthorised dumping;
381W(2) if he will make a statement on the circumstances surrounding the dumping of waste designated for incineration at the landfill site at Moss lane, Rixton, Warrington, and as to the nature of the waste and the period over which it was dumped;
(3) if he will institute a public inquiry into the dumping of toxic waste at the landfill site at Moss land, Rixton, Warrington;
(4) what information he has as to (a) the source and (b) the nature of the waste designated for incineration which has been dumped at a landfill site at Moss lane, Rixton, Warrington;
(5) what assessment he has made of the threat to public health of the discovery of waste designated for incineration being dumped at a landfill site at Moss lane, Rixton, Warrington.
§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State of the Environment what information he has as to clinical waste derived from AIDS patients which are disposed to landfill.
§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomley[holding answer 9 February 1989]: I have asked Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution to carry out a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deposit of clinical waste at the landfill at Moss lane, Rixton, Cheshire, and particularly what enforcement action WDA is proposing to take. There are no plans to instigate a formal public inquiry.