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To ask Her Majesty's Government with reference to the review by the National Audit Office of the data collected by the Building Research Establishment and published in March 2007 by the Sustainable Development Commission, why prisons in 2005–06used over 75 per cent of their energy for heating; and what steps...

Asked by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach (Conservative)

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Written questions

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Answered

Date

20 May 2009

Reference

3631; 710 c318-9WA

House

House of Lords

Waste Management

How much of the additional waste collected under the Waste Management (England and Wales) Regulations 2005 will be disposed of by (a) recycling, (b) landfill, and (c) incineration; and, of the waste that will be incinerated, what percentage will be used for (i) heating, or (ii) power generation; and

Asked by

Lord Vinson (Conservative)

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Written questions

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10 February 2006

A draft of the Waste Management (England and Wales) Regulations 2005 was issued for public consultation but the regulations have not yet been made and laid before Parliament. The consultation paper is available on the department’s website at www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/agwaste-regs/consultation.pdf.Following that consultation, and an adverse judgment by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on infraction proceedings by the European Commission against the UK, we are now finalising the Waste Management (England and Wales) Regulations 2006. The main purpose of the forthcoming regulations is to repeal the exclusion in Section 75(7)(c) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and to apply to agricultural waste the national controls that are already in place to comply with the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) and the Landfill Directive. Our aim is to make and lay the regulations before Parliament by 31 March 2006. The regulations will apply to the agricultural industry the controls that already apply to all other sectors of industry.The consultation paper published with the draft regulations included at Annexe 1 a partial regulatory impact assessment (RIA). A full RIA will be published when the final Regulations are made and laid before Parliament. The consultation paper set out in Chapter 3 the five basic options available to farmers for the disposal or recovery of their agricultural waste when the regulations come into force. It is a matter for decision by individual farmers which of these options they use.For this reason, the Government have made no estimate of the amounts of agricultural waste which farmers will dispose of by recycling, landfilling or incineration; or, of the agricultural waste that will be incinerated, what percentage will be used for heating, or power generation. The environmental and health benefits of ending on-farm disposal practices such as the open burning of non-natural agricultural waste (e.g. plastic bottles) are discussed in Section 3 of the RIA published with the consultation paper. The RIA estimates total agricultural waste arisings of 355,304 tonnes p.a. (England and Wales) and states in paragraph 10.2 that the department’s assumptions, for the purposes of estimating the cost of the proposed regulations, are that:"None of the farm dumps which are currently used to dispose of agricultural waste will be able to meet the standards required by the Landfill Directive;""98 per cent. of farmers will decide to consign their agricultural waste for disposal off-farm; and""all such waste will be consigned for disposal at licensed landfill site."Article 13 of the WFD requires establishments or undertakings which operate under the terms of a permit/licence authorising the disposal or recovery of waste, or a registered permit/licence exemption, to be subject to appropriate periodic inspections by the competent authorities (e.g. the Environment Agency). I understand that the Environment Agency intends to fulfil this requirement in relation to agricultural waste through efficiencies gained from its Integrated Inspection of Agriculture project rather than by engaging additional inspectors.Private householders are not ““establishments or undertakings”” for the purposes of the WFD and are not therefore subject to the directive’s permit/licence requirements. However, the ECJ’s judgment on the WFD infraction found that the UK had failed to fulfil its obligations in relation to Article 4 of the directive and the disposal of household waste within the curtilage of domestic properties The proposed regulations will therefore amend Section 33(1)(c) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to make it an offence for a householder to dispose of household waste within the curtilage of a domestic property in a manner likely to cause pollution of the environment or harm to human health.

Date

10 February 2006

Reference

678 c127-8WA; 3639

House

House of Lords

Combined Heat and Power Schemes

How many individual dwelling units are currently equipped to receive waste heat or heat from combined heat and power plants in England.

Asked by

Lord Dixon-Smith (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 June 2005

Reference

404; 672 c155WA

House

House of Lords

Combined Heat and Power Schemes

How many individual dwelling units are currently equipped to receive waste heat or heat from combined heat and power plants in Wales.

Asked by

Lord Dixon-Smith (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 June 2005

Reference

405; 672 c155WA

House

House of Lords

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