HC Deb 13 November 2003 vol 413 cc410-1W
Mr. Weir

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many contracts involving the dismemberment of foreign ships have been entered into by breakers' yards in the United Kingdom in each of the last five years. [137067]

Mr. Morley

Records are only available for those ships that are notified under the transfrontier shipment of waste control system. In the last five years, only one contract has been entered into by a breakers yard in the UK.

Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will place in the Library copies of the assessments made by the Environment Agency of the environmental risk of the project by Able UK to decommission and recycle American ships in Hartlepool. [137188]

Mr. Morley

I will arrange for copies of the assessment to be placed in the Libraries of the House.