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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

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 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

177861; 422 c1123-4W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Hazardous substances Fly-tipping Merseyside Crosby

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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