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EU Committees

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the UK representatives on the EU Sugar Management Committee and Special Committee for Agriculture will support the proposal that the EU price used for calculation of the export refunds for manufactured goods containing sugar should include the proposed restructuring levy. [29436]

Jim Knight: The European Commission's proposals for reform of the EU sugar regime provide for thedifference between world prices and prices in the Community to be covered by export refunds to the extent necessary to enable trade to take place. Thesetting of refunds is delegated to the Commission through the Management Committee procedure. UK representatives at that Committee will judge proposals for the calculation of refunds on their merits and in the light of appropriate consultations with stakeholder interests.

EU Directives

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment the Department has carried out of the impact on costs of the (a) EU end of life vehicles directive and (b) EU waste electrical equipment directive; and if she will place copies of the assessments in the Library. [29770]

Malcolm Wicks: I have been asked to reply.

The Department has published final Regulatory Impact Assessments of the costs of the UK implementing regulations for the end of life vehicles directive, and partial Regulatory Impact Assessments for the planned implementation of the waste electrical and electronic equipment directive, all of which have been placed previously in the Libraries of the House.

Fly-tipping

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what volume of waste she estimates was illegally fly-tipped in each year since 1992, broken down by the nature of this waste. [27886]

Mr. Bradshaw: No national data are currently available on the volume of waste illegally fly-tipped over the whole of the period specified. Flycapture, the national fly-tipping database, was established in April 2004 and although it does not record the specific volume of incidents, average data are gathered.
 
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	Number of tips	Size of tip/m3	Volume/m3	Type
Single Item	333,055	0.25	78,954.5	assumption
Car boot or less	246,468	1	242,335.0	guidance
Van load	194,904	4	759,172.0	guidance
Transit van load	96,943	10	941,320.0	guidance
Tipper lorry load	20,987	40	777,640.0	assumption
Significant multi loads	6,860	100	569,900.0	assumption
Total/m3			3,369,321.5

Note:
1.Data in the table is from waste collection authorities and the Environment Agency for England as recorded on the Flycapture database from April 2004–March 2005.
2.Volume details are an estimate only as the database records summary numbers linked to average sizes rather than reporting specific volumes in an incident database. 'assumption' indicates an average size that can be assumed, whereas 'guidance' indicates that a suggested size is proposed in the database guidance.

The Environment Agency also keeps more detailed information on the incidents they deal with. The total number of substantiated fly-tipped incidents attended by the Environment Agency is:

	Number
2001	2,437
2002	4,636
2003	4,967
2004	3,658
2005	(3)1,932

 
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¹ 1 January 2005 to 10 November 2005

Note: 1.Environment Agency data capture on the nature of wastes fly-tipped and available for 2001 to 2005 is in the table. The number of pollutants identified will exceed the number of incidents due to single incidents with multiple pollutants. 2.Environment Agency volumetric data capture commenced last year It is therefore as yet detailed will not provide as complete a picture as Flycapture.
Substantiated fly-tipping incidents—nature of waste fly-tipped 2005 data (up to 1 November 2005)

Pollutant type (tier 1)	Pollutants (tier 2)	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Agricultural Materials and Wastes	Carcasses	4	8	12	6	1
Agricultural Materials and Wastes	Fertiliser	1		1
Agricultural Materials and Wastes	Other Agricultural Material or Waste	8	23	27	10	10
Agricultural Materials and Wastes	Silage Liquors				1
Agricultural Materials and Wastes	Solid Manure	2	10	3	6	1
Atmospheric Pollutants and Effects	Chemical Odour	1
Atmospheric Pollutants and Effects	Dust	2	1		1
Atmospheric Pollutants and Effects	Fumes			1	1
Atmospheric Pollutants and Effects	Other Atmospheric Pollutant or Effect	2	5	1	2
Atmospheric Pollutants and Effects	Smoke	2	2	10	7	3
Contaminated Water	Chemically Contaminated Run-Off	1	1
Contaminated Water	Firefighting Run-Off		2	1
Contaminated Water	Other Contaminated Water	3	2		2
Contaminated Water	Urban Run-Off	1
Contaminated Water	Vehicle and Plant Washings		2		1
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Algae		1
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Animal and Vegetable Oil	3	4	6	6	1
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Blood and Offal	1	2	1	1	2
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Composted Material	14	13	11	9	5
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Food and Drink	23	31	39	35	13
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Natural Organic Material	46	88	83	71	22
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Other Animal Matter	11	15	18	17	12
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Other General Biodegradable Material or Waste	373	602	659	456	154
General Biodegradable Materials and Wastes	Vegetable Cuttings and Deposits	149	195	196	150	51
Inert Materials and Wastes	Coal	2	3
Inert Materials and Wastes	Demolition Materials and Wastes	519	901	967	716	266
Inert Materials and Wastes	Mineral Materials and Wastes	7	12	14	12	3
Inert Materials and Wastes	Other Inert Material or Waste	218	370	366	210	87
Inert Materials and Wastes	Rocks and Gravel	12	19	18	20	2
Inert Materials and Wastes	Soils and Clay	65	147	131	89	41
Inorganic Chemicals/Products	Acids	6	10	6	6	9
Inorganic Chemicals/Products	Alkalis	3	3	5	5	3
Inorganic Chemicals/Products	Ammonia Solutions	1
Inorganic Chemicals/Products	Cement		2	3	1
Inorganic Chemicals/Products	Cyanides		2			1
Inorganic Chemicals/Products	Heavy Metals			1	1	1
Inorganic Chemicals/Products	Other Inorganic Chemical or Product	9	17	16	13	6
No pollutant Entered	No pollutant Entered		1
Oils and Fuel	Crude Oil				1	1
Oils and Fuel	Cutting Oils		1	2	1	3
Oils and Fuel	Diesel	11	17	23	4	5
Oils and Fuel	Gas and Fuel Oils	2	4	7	5
Oils and Fuel	Hydraulic Oils	7	7	1	2
Oils and Fuel	Insulating and Cable Oils				1
Oils and Fuel	Kerosene and Aviation Fuel		1	1
Oils and Fuel	Lubricating Oils	7	21	20		7
Oils and Fuel	Mixed/Waste Oils	22	60	48	58	34
Oils and Fuel	Other Oil or Fuel	6	17	8	12	10
Oils and Fuel	Petrol	7	14	10	11	3
Oils and Fuel	Unidentified Oil	17	32	43	42	20
Organic Chemicals/Products	Adhesives			7	1
Organic Chemicals/Products	Alcohols/Aldehydes		4	2	2	1
Organic Chemicals/Products	Dyes and Inks	4	2	1		1
Organic Chemicals/Products	Hydrocarbons	4	5	1	5	5
Organic Chemicals/Products	Other Organic Chemical or Product	7	12	15	9	13
Organic Chemicals/Products	Paints and Varnishes	3	11	14	15	7
Organic Chemicals/Products	Pesticides and Biocides	1	1	2	3	2
Organic Chemicals/Products	Phenols and Creosote		1	4	2	2
Organic Chemicals/Products	Solvents	10	22	19	21	12
Organic Chemicals/Products	Surfactants and Detergents	2	5	1	4	4
Other Pollutant	Microbiological		1	1
Other Pollutant	Noise				1
Other Pollutant	Other	98	129	151	138	45
Other Pollutant	Radionucleid			1
Pollutant Not Identified	Not Identified	43	72	113	71	44
Sewage Materials	Crude Sewage	1		1	3	2
Sewage Materials	Grey Water		2	1
Sewage Materials	Other Sewage Material	1	2		1	1
Sewage Materials	Sludge		1	1
Specific Waste Materials	Asbestos	122	241	274	275	167
Specific Waste Materials	Batteries	9	29	33	27	18
Specific Waste Materials	Clinical Waste	9	12	14	13	4
Specific Waste Materials	Commercial Waste	130	292	316	214	96
Specific Waste Materials	Containers	21	39	56	64	35
Specific Waste Materials	Contaminated Construction and Demolition Material and Waste				13	7
Specific Waste Materials	Contaminated Soil	1	1	8	3
Specific Waste Materials	Electrical Equipment				61	58
Specific Waste Materials	Household Waste	369	840	1,002	790	309
Specific Waste Materials	Inorganic Chemical Wastes	2	3	3	3	5
Specific Waste Materials	Metal Wastes	36	88	74	59	16
Specific Waste Materials	Organic Chemical Wastes	2	6	3	3	5
Specific Waste Materials	Other Composites	6	6	8	6
Specific Waste Materials	Other Non-Metal Wastes	7	19	23	26	8
Specific Waste Materials	Other Specific Waste Material	57	219	228	179	59
Specific Waste Materials	Prescription only medicines			2	2
Specific Waste Materials	Tarry Wastes	6	10	11	5	3
Specific Waste Materials	Thermal Mineral Residues			2
Specific Waste Materials	Tyres	199	404	429	282	160
Specific Waste Materials	Vehicles and Vehicle Parts	62	116	140	102	55

 
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