HC Deb 19 July 1989 vol 157 cc211-2W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the organised dumping sites where asbestos may be dumped in the area covered by Greater London.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has a record of some 32 waste disposal facilities licensed to deposit asbestos waste in the London area. Further details of these sites will be available on the public register of licensed sites maintained by the London waste regulation authority.

Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what checks are made, and how, by officers of his Department as to the following of rules when asbestos waste is dumped.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The responsibility for the conditions under which asbestos waste is deposited on licensed sites rests with the relevant waste disposal authorities.

General guidance on the disposal of asbestos wastes is given in waste management paper No. 18, published by the Department, and in the Institute of Waste Management's code of practice for the disposal of asbestos waste, which was supported by the Department.