§ Mr. BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 5 March,Official Report, column 102, if he will list the steps taken to ensure full compliance with the Environmental Protection (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1991 in respect of the recent variation of the authorisation to burn secondary liquid fuel granted to Castle Cement under part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. [20348]
§ Mr. ClappisonHer Majesty's inspectorate of pollution issued the variation to Castle Cement on 23 January 1996 under section 10 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and followed all the requirements set out in this and in part II of schedule 1 to the Act, which sets out how variations are to be treated. The inspectorate treated the variation as substantial for the purposes of section 10 and consulted all those prescribed in SI 507. The inspectorate put copies of all notices and other papers as required by the Act on the public registers and carefully considered all the comments it received both from statutory consultees and elsewhere before taking its decision.