§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the outcome of the serving of an enforcement notice by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution on the Mid-Essex hospital service in February over the unauthorised receipt and storage of radioactive waste at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford.
§ Mr. MacleanThe outcome of the serving of an enforcement notice on the Mid-Essex hospital service is that Broomfield hospital is no longer receiving radioactive waste from other hospitals and is not accumulating such waste. Radioactive waste being produced by the hospital itself is incinerated in accordance with authorisations granted under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 and the Environmental Protection Act 1990.