§ Mr. HainTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he received Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution report on Crooks Marsh farm; and what is his view on its proposals to abandon plans to dispose of nuclear waste in landfill sites.
§ Mr. AtkinsI am not aware of any report specifically relating to Crooks Marsh farm. However, this site is referred to in Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution's annual monitoring report for radioactive substances 1992, a copy of which is in the library.
This site has accepted wastes from local hospitals and universities in the past, but with the transfer of the site from the county council to the Local Authority Waste Disposal Co. the disposers were informed that the site would stop accepting this type of waste.
HMIP has no proposals in respect of nuclear waste disposal in landfill sites. It would assess rigorously any application from any operation for such disposals and issue an authorisation only when it was assured of the safety of the public.