§ Mr. FisherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to require Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution to publish the levels of(a) chlorine and (b) dioxin emissions from all incinerators. [15654]
§ Mr. ClappisonAll incinerators under the control of Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution—HMIP—are required to meet emission limits for hydrochloric acid and dioxins from 1 December 1996. Monitoring results supplied to HMIP are normally placed on public registers. Monitoring information already obtained for dioxin emissions from municipal waste incinerators was published by HMIP on 25 September 1995.
§ Mr. FisherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what research his Department is conducting into the emissions of(a) dioxins and (b) chlorine from incinerators; and at what cost. [15656]
§ Mr. ClappisonHer Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has funded a review of dioxin emissions to air, including those from incinerators, at a cost of £65,000 plus VAT. The resulting report was published on 25 September 1995, and placed in the House of Commons Library.
HMIP has recently commissioned further research, at a cost of &£43,500 plus VAT, on dioxin releases to water and land. This work will cover industrial sources, including incinerators, and non-industrial sources, and is expected to be completed during the last quarter of 1996.