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Landfill Licences
Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what licence modification in respect of the landfill site operated by Harry Sanders Ltd. at Ingram Works in Leeds is now under consideration; and how many applications for licence modifications have been received from that applicant in the last month. [119583]
Mr. Morley [holding answer 16 June 2003]: Harry Sanders Ltd. do not hold the licence for the landfill site at Ingram Works, Leeds. I understand the licence is held by Peter Saunders and the Environment Agency has not received any application to modify the licence over the last month.
Light Bulbs
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many (a) GLS bulbs, (b) fluorescent tubes, (c) halogen bulbs, (d) low energy bulbs and (e) other lighting bulbs were (i) purchased, (ii) disposed of, by (A) landfill, (B) incineration and (C) other means, (iii) recycled and (iv) reused, broken down by households and businesses in the last year for which figures are available. [119067]
Mr. Morley: The Lighting Industry Federation, which accounts for the majority of lighting manufacturers in the UK, estimates the figures for its members are as follows.
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| Lamp sales 2002 (million) | Percentage business use (approx) | Disposal in 2002 (per cent.)LandfillIncinerationRecycle | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filament lamps (GLS) | 323 | 40 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| Fluorescent tubes | 54 | 90 | 93.5 | 0 | 6.5 |
| Halogen | 26 | 40 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| Low energy lamps (CFL) | 24 | 45 | 97.5 | 0 | 2.5 |
| High intensity discharge | 5.5 | 100 | 82.5 | 0 | 17.5 |
Official Spelling
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make it her policy that all official (a) correspondence, (b) reports and (c) documentation from her office uses the English spelling of words where this differs from the US version. [118872]
Alun Michael: I have asked officials to follow precisely this approach and I know they make considerable efforts to do so. It is a formal aim within Defra for all correspondence, reports and documentation to be written according to Plain English standards (allowing leeway in technical reports aimed at a specialist audience) and to avoid non-standard spelling. I have also asked officials to avoid use of initials except when they are in standard use, but this is even more difficult to achieve in practice. Publication of reports is carried out in line with Guidance on the Work of the Government Information Service.
Resource Productivity
Mr. Lazarowicz: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations contained in the Performance and Innovation Unit's report "Resource Productivity: Making More with Less", published in November 2001. [119701]
Mr. Morley: The recommendations in this report were initially under consideration by an inter-departmental group of officials, formed in early 2002. However, this work has taken on a much broader context because of the agreement successfully reached last September at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) on the theme of sustainable consumption and production. The Government's intention now is to publish, later this summer, a strategic document on the broader WSSD theme. This will draw on the earlier work of the Performance and Innovation Unit on resource productivity, as well as on developments in the related areas of energy and waste, on which the PIU and then the Strategy Unit have also reported.
Sellafield
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the quantified radioactive discharges, by terabecquerels, from Sellafield to (a) air and (b) water in each year from 1980 to date; and what the projected discharges are in each year to 2020. [117422]
Mr. Morley [holding answer 9 June 2003]: Liquid and aerial discharge data for the years 1980 to 2002 inclusive, is provided in the following tables. For liquid discharges, the total alpha plus total beta (excluding
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tritium) measurements in table 1 provide a simple indication of past and future discharges that is representative of the overall discharge. Tritium in liquid discharges, which has very low radiological toxicity, despite being high in quantitive terms, is shown separately in table 2.
For aerial discharges in table 3, the total alpha plus total beta measurements relate to particulate activity discharged to the atmosphere from the Sellafield site. In addition to the particulate activity there are low active radioactive gases and vapours discharged from the site which require specific sampling equipment dependent upon the gas to be measured. These measurements are separate from and in addition to the total alpha and total beta measurements and are provided in table 4 to give a more complete picture of past aerial discharges. Included in the gaseous measurements are the noble gases such as Krypton 85 and Argon 41 which are inert and consequently do not react with the environment through the normal pathways of rainwater or ground deposition. Their impact on man is through external exposure and as such their impact in terms of dose is relatively low, although in quantitive terms the discharges appear to be large.
The projected results of liquid discharges in tables 5 and 6 are reproduced from the UK's Strategy for Radioactive Discharges, 2001–20, published in July 2002 and are shown as averaged 5-year predictions. Aerial projections are not currently available. These will be developed in the context of the first revision of the UK's Radioactive Discharges Strategy which is due to be published in 2005.
| 1980 | 4,345 |
| 1981 | 3,861 |
| 1982 | 3,556 |
| 1983 | 2,504 |
| 1984 | 1,204 |
| 1985 | 593 |
| 1986(1) | 123 |
| 1987 | 91 |
| 1988 | 83 |
| 1989 | 104 |
| 1990 | 73 |
| 1991 | 64 |
| 1992 | 59 |
| 1993 | 100 |
| 1994 | 127 |
| 1995 | 188 |
| 1996 | 143 |
| 1997 | 138 |
| 1998(2) | 86 |
| 1999 | 110 |
| 2000(2) | 77 |
| 2001 | 123 |
| 2002 | 113 |
(1) Discharge authorisation revised in 1986
(2) Reduced discharges in 1998 and 2000 were due to their being no treatment of Salt Evaporator Concentrate (SEC) arising from Magnox re-processing.
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| 1980 | 1,300 |
| 1981 | 2,000 |
| 1982 | 1,800 |
| 1983 | 1,800 |
| 1984 | 1,600 |
| 1985 | 1,100 |
| 1986(3) | 2,200 |
| 1987 | 1,400 |
| 1988 | 1,700 |
| 1989 | 2,100 |
| 1990 | 1,700 |
| 1991 | 1,800 |
| 1992 | 1,200 |
| 1993 | 2,300 |
| 1994 | 1,700 |
| 1995 | 2,660 |
| 1996 | 3,000 |
| 1997 | 2,600 |
| 1998 | 2,300 |
| 1999 | 2,500 |
| 2000 | 2,260 |
| 2001 | 2,560 |
| 2002 | 3,320 |
(3) Discharge authorisation revised in 1986
| 1980 | 0.50 |
| 1981 | 0.25 |
| 1982 | 0.102 |
| 1983 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 0.005 |
| 1995 | 0.004 |
| 1996 | 0.003 |
| 1997 | 0.002 |
| 1998 | 0.002 |
| 1999 | 0.002 |
| 2000 | 0.001 |
| 2001 | 0.001 |
| 2002 | 0.0001 |
(4) Tritium, Carbon-14, Sulphur 35, Iodine 129 and 131, Argon 41, Krypton 85.
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| 2003 | 165 |
| 2004 | 165 |
| 2005 | 165 |
| 2006 | 104 |
| 2007 | 104 |
| 2008 | 104 |
| 2009 | 104 |
| 2010 | 104 |
| 2011 | 75 |
| 2012 | 75 |
| 2013 | 75 |
| 2014 | 75 |
| 2015 | 75 |
| 2016 | 54 |
| 2017 | 54 |
| 2018 | 54 |
| 2019 | 54 |
| 2020 | 54 |
| 2003 | 9,280 |
| 2004 | 9,280 |
| 2005 | 9,280 |
| 2006 | 8,930 |
| 2007 | 8,930 |
| 2008 | 8,930 |
| 2009 | 8,930 |
| 2010 | 8,930 |
| 2011 | 9,110 |
| 2012 | 9,110 |
| 2013 | 9,110 |
| 2014 | 9,110 |
| 2015 | 9,110 |
| 2016 | 9,520 |
| 2017 | 9,520 |
| 2018 | 9,520 |
| 2019 | 9,520 |
| 2020 | 9,520 |
Note:
The projections in tables 5 and 6 are annualised average figures for the five-year periods 2001–05, 2006–10, 2011–15 and 2016–20. They do not represent targets or limits for sp.
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