§ Lord Gainfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
When the review of the scope of the integrated pollution control and local authority air pollution control systems will be completed and amendments to the prescribed processes and substances regulations made.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment (The Earl of Arran)The systems of integrated pollution control and local authority air pollution control have added a new dimension to pollution control in this country.
It is important to ensure that the scope of these systems is right and that they target the industrial processes which warrant such control. The amendments to the prescribed processes and substances regulations, which were laid yesterday, represent the culmination of a lengthy review, and I am grateful to the many organisations which contributed to it.
The review enabled us to look in particular at the balance between the burdens imposed on business and the need to ensure that industry with significant pollution potential is under proper control. The regulations have the effect of transferring some processes from the more wide-ranging integrated pollution control system to local authority air pollution control and exempt certain processes from control altogether. On the other hand, a number of processes are brought under control for the first time.