HC Deb 18 June 2004 vol 422 cc1123-4W
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much hazardous waste was illegally dumped in(a) Merseyside and (b) Crosby in each of the last three years; and how many prosecutions resulted. [177861]

Mr. Morley

Information has been provided for the numbers of incidents involving illegal deposits of hazardous waste recorded by the Environment Agency. While the Agency holds prosecution data for all illegal deposits of waste, hazardous waste prosecutions are not themselves separately recorded.

Local authorities may additionally hold records of those incidents and prosecutions that they have taken but this is not held centrally.

There are no Agency recorded incidents or prosecutions relating to the illegal deposit of hazardous waste in Crosby in any of the last three years.

Those for Merseyside are set out in the following tables.

Table 1—Total incidents of illegal hazardous waste deposits recorded by the Agency
Merseyside Crosby
2002 12 0
2003 9 0
2004 4 0

Table 2-Total number of Agency prosecutions for all illegal waste deposits (including non-hazardous)
Merseyside Crosby
2002 15 0
2003 7 0
2004 2 0