§ Sir Mark Lennox-BoydTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will modify the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (Classification, Packaging and 275W Labelling) Regulations 1994 to allow the transport of waste pharmaceutical in containers of up to 60 litres in volume. [3547]
§ Mr. NorrisThese regulations permit small receptacles of waste medicines to be exempted from certain transport provisions providing they are amalgamated in packagings of not more than 30kg in total. Any suggestion that such goods may be carried safely in larger receptacles should be made known to the Health and Safety Commission before 1 March 1996 in response to the current consultative document on the revision of the regulations.