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Hazardous Waste

Sue Doughty: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many applications have been received for separate cells for hazardous waste in trade landfill sites; what the expected
 
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capacity for hazardous waste is at each of these sites; what the location is of each of these sites; and when she expects each of these to be available to receive hazardous waste. [175637]

Mr. Morley [holding answer 25 May 2004]: Up to 21 May, the Environment Agency has received 38 applications for stable, non-reactive hazardous waste cells—separate cells—at non-hazardous waste landfills. This number may increase as further tranches of permit applications are received by the Agency, depending on
 
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operators' decisions. All such sites are merchant landfill sites. Two applications have been refused, two have been granted and one application has been withdrawn.

Final figures for the estimated capacities are not yet available as not all application contained sufficient detail for this to be assessed. The two permitted sites have an annual capacity of 57,500 tonnes.

The following table indicates the known location and operator for each of the 38 sites for which applications have been received and the status of each application.

Application	Site name	Location	Operator	Status
1	Seaton Meadows	Teeside, Middlesbrough	Able UK	Pending
2	Lillyhall Phase 3	Distington, Cumbria	Alco Waste Management	Permit issued
3	Arpley Landfill	Warrington, Cheshire	3C waste	Pending
4	Risley Landfill	Warrington, Cheshire	Biffa Waste Services Ltd.	Pending
5	Aycliffe Quarry East	Newton Aycliffe, Middlesbrough	Stonegrave Aggregates Ltd.	Application refused
6	Pilsworth North Landfill	Bury, Manchester	Viridor Waste Management Ltd.	Permit issued
7	Lord St. Helens	St. Helens, Lancashire	Cory Environmental	Application for separate cell for stable non-reactive waste withdrawn
8	Dimmer Landfill	Dimmer Landfill, Dimmer Lane, Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7 7NR	Wyvern Waste	Application refused
9	Poundbottom	Forest Road, Redlych, Salisbury, Wiltshire	CSG Group Ltd.	Pending
10	Candles Landfill Site	1 Dog Lane, New Works, Telford, Shropshire	Onyx Landfill	Pending
11	Chelson Meadow	Chelson Meadow Landfill, The Ride, Plymstock, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 7JA	Plymouth County Council	Pending
12	Ling Hall	Warwickshire	Onyx Landfill	Pending
13	Bletchley Landfill Site	Newton Longville, Bucks	Shanks	Pending
14	Elvaston Landfill Site	Shardlow, Derbyshire	Biffa Waste Services Ltd.	Pending
15	Weldon Landfill Site	Weldon, Northants	Shanks and McEwan Ltd.	Pending
16	Dogsthorpe Landfill Site	Dogsthorpe, Peterborough	Shanks Midlands Ltd.	Pending
17	Middlemarsh	Skegness, Lincs	Waste Recycling Group	Pending
18	Calvert Landfill Site	Calvert, Bucks	Shanks	Pending
19	Dorket Head Quarry Landfill	Notts	Waste Recycling Group	Pending
20	Erin Landfill Site	Chesterfield, Derbyshire	Viridor	Pending
21	North Herts Landfill Site	Hitchin, Herts	Biffa Waste Services Ltd.	Pending
22	Packington Landfill	Litle Packington, Warks	SITA	Pending
23	Sidegate Landfill Site	Wellingborough, Northants	SITA	Pending
24	Masons Landfill	Suffolk	Viridor	Pending
25	Wangford	Suffolk	Viridor	Pending
26	Bilsthorpe Quarry	Brailworth Road, Bilsthorpe, Notts	Waste Recycling Ltd.	Pending
27	Wyrley Grove Landfill	Gorsey Lane, Pelshall, Walsall, Staffs	Cleansing Service Group	Pending
28	Vigo Utopia	Coppice Lane, Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Mids	Cory Environmental Ltd.	Pending
29	Boston	Boston, Lincs	Waste Recycling Ltd.	Pending
30	Ardley Landfill	Ardley Landfill, Ardley Quarry Southern Extension, Ardley Fields Farm, Ardley, Oxfordshire, OX6 9PH	Viridor Waste Management Ltd.	Pending
31	Deepmoor	High Bullen, St. Giles in the Wood, Torrington, Devon, EX38 7JA	Devon Waste Management Ltd.	Pending
32	Connon Bridge	East Taphouse, Liskard, Cornwall, PL14 4NP	County Environmental Services Ltd.	Pending
33	Blue Haze	Blue Haze Landfill, Somerley, Ringwood, Hants	Onyx Landfill Ltd.	Pending
34	Beacon Hill	Beacon Hill, Wareham Road, Corfe Mullen	SITA Products and Services Ltd.	Pending
35	Granville	Granville/Woodhouse Landfill, Grange Lane, St. Georges, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9PB	Shropshire Waste management Ltd.	Pending
36	Himley Wood	Himley Quarry, Oak Lane, Kingswinford, Dudley, West Midlands, DY6 7LP	Cory Environmental (Central) Ltd.	Pending
37	Pebsham	Freshfields, Bexhill Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Nr. Hastings, East Sussex, Tn38 8AY	Biffa Waste Services Ltd.	Pending
38	Horton	Horton Landfill Site, Small Dole, West Sussex, BN5 9XH	Viridor Waste Management Ltd.	Pending

The Environment Agency is in discussion with the major waste companies in England and Wales to seek to agree a way forward in the use of separate landfill cells as a key part of the solution for hazardous waste, following the co-disposal ban in July.

Home Energy Efficiency

Mrs. Humble: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many homes in Blackpool, North and Fleetwood have
 
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benefited from the Home Energy Efficiency and Warm Front Schemes. [176401]

Mr. Morley: The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme is now marketed as Warm Front. Between the launch of the scheme in June 2000 and the end of March 2004, approximately 4,500 households in Blackpool, North and Fleetwood received assistance from the Scheme.

Landfill

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress has been made towards implementing the European Union Landfill Directive; and if she will make a statement. [174230]

Mr. Morley: With the exception of an issue linked to the infraction proceedings on the exclusion of agricultural waste from national waste controls, all requirements of the Landfill Directive have been implemented in the whole of the UK. In line with usual procedures, the European Commission has been informed of this situation.

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on progress on implementing the European Union Landfill Directive. [175579]

Mr. Morley: With the exception of an issue linked to the infraction proceedings on the exclusion of agricultural waste from national waste controls, all requirements of the Landfill Directive have been implemented in the whole of the UK. In line with usual procedures, the European Commission have been informed of this situation. In addition, for England and Wales, Regulations implementing Council Decision 2003/33/EC on waste acceptance criteria were laid before Parliament on 18 May. The Council Decision expands on the Landfill Directive's requirements and must be implemented in national law by 16 July 2004.

Sue Doughty: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she will publish a revised draft version of the Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (England) Regulations 2003; and when the final regulations will be laid before Parliament. [173963]

Mr. Morley [holding answer 19 May 2004]: The outcome of the consultation on the Landfill Allowances Trading Scheme was published on the Defra website (www.Defra.gov.uk) on 11 May. The intention is to lay the Regulations before Parliament in early June.

Meat Production Subsidies

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what her policy is on a reduction in subsidy level for meat production; [164226]

(2) when she will reply to the question tabled by the hon. Member for Portsmouth, South on 24 March, reference 164226, on subsidy levels. [175877]

Alun Michael: The CAP reform agreement decouples the bulk of subsidy from production, freeing up farmers to realign their businesses to meet market demands, not what subsidy regimes dictate.
 
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Breaking the link between subsidy and production also removes an incentive for farmers to maximise production and so reduces environmental damage from intensive farming such as over-use of pesticides and fertilizers. Through cross-compliance obligations, the agreement also makes subsidy dependent on farmers meeting certain EU environmental, food safety, plant and animal health and animal welfare standards as well as maintaining their land in good agricultural and environmental condition. More subsidy will also be diverted from production to wider rural development and environmental initiatives which farmers undertake.

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