HC Deb 29 January 2003 vol 398 cc875-6W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) how many hazardous waste landfill sites operate in the United Kingdom; how many of these are in-house sites; and if she will make a statement; [89753]

(2) how many landfill sites have submitted applications to deal with hazardous waste after July 2004; how many of these are in-house sites; and if she will make a statement. [89754]

Government funding per year (£1,000s)
Region 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Total
East Midlands 44 49 82 90 72 109 67 120 154 109 894
Eastern 36 27 15 9 21 6 24 15 15 25 186
Greater London 1 1 10 2 1 26 1 1 7 1 52
North East 3 1 8 9 18 13 26 15 6 93 192
North West 17 16 42 4 18 42 31 25 72 170 437
South East 17 62 42 52 57 234 196 159 284 546 1,648
South West 15 51 147 81 173 333 360 390 395 595 2,541

Margaret Beckett

The information that is available on landfill sites relates to England and Wales and comes from a conditioning plan exercise conducted by the Environment Agency. The figures requested are set out in the table, broken down by region:

Hazardous Hazardous
Region (post 2002) Of which in-house1 (post 2004) Of which in-house1
Anglian 47 8 9 7
Midlands 42 4 4 2
North East 39 10 11 6
North
West 27 6 8 5
South West 16 1 2 1
Southern 13 0 1 0
Thames 19 1 0 0
Wales 15 6 3 3
Total 218 36 38 24
1 In-house is defined as those landfill sites owned and operated by a company for disposal of its own waste.

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