| Heading: |
Landfill: Pollution Control |
| Question ID: |
1803767 |
| UIN: |
52915 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-16 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5038 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Anneliese Midgley
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| Asking Member handle: |
anneliese_midge
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@anneliese_midge
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) mitigate pollution from historic landfills and (b) facilitate the remediation of landfill sites in Knowsley constituency. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-22 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4645 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Emma Hardy
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| Answer text: |
Responsibility typically lies with the landowner to maintain systems that prevent pollution. Under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, local authorities are primarily responsible for managing contaminated land, including designating historic... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |