§ Mr. SayeedTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether in the last 24 months the Minister of State for Energy and Construction has received invitations to visit facilities which extract energy from municipal waste; how many meetings the minister has had in(a) 2001, (b) 2002 and (c) 2003 with companies which operate waste management facilities extracting energy from waste; and how many times in each of these years the minister met the trade association responsible for waste management. [121196]
§ Mr. TimmsMy hon. Friend, the then Minister for Energy and Construction, received a number of invitations to visit facilities which extract energy from waste, and visited CPS Civic Ltd.'s Energy from Waste plant in Sheffield in March this year. He had two meetings with companies operating energy from waste facilities during 2001, one such meeting during 2002, and two meetings during 2003. He met the Energy from Waste Association on one occasion in 2001 when he gave a speech at their Annual lunch in May 2001.