§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many people were fined by the Environment Agency or its predecessor regulatory authority for dumping bonded asbestos illegally in each year since 1990. [116208]
§ Mr. MeacherThe Environment Agency's National Enforcement Database does not record specific types of pollutants and so it is not possible to provide details of prosecutions for the illegal dumping of asbestos. However figures are available for the total number of prosecutions per year for the illegal depositing of waste contrary to Section 33(1)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, of which asbestos dumping would be a subset. No information is available pre-1999.
The details are as follows:
Prosecutions per year for the illegal depositing of waste Number 1999 (from 1 April) 143 2000 222 2001 242 2002 273 2003 (to date) 85