§ Mr. PickthallTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the incinerators in the north west licensed to incinerate BSE-infected cattle and scrapie-infected sheep; and how many such carcasses were destroyed in each of the last 12 months at each incinerator.
§ Mr. YeoUnder part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 clinical waste incinerators with a capacity of 1 tonne or more an hour require authorisation by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution and those with a lesser capacity require an authorisation from the relevant local authority.
Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has to date authorised no clinical waste incinerators in the north west. From the statistical information collected by my Department, 41 incinerators with a capacity of under 1 tonne an hour were authorised by local authorities in the north west by the end of June 1993. My Department does not hold a central list of these incinerators. However, it is likely that most of these will be incinerators burning clinical waste. Information about each incinerator, including a copy of the application for authorisation, must be included in a public register held by each local authority for the processes for which it is responsible.