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Asylum Appeals
Lord Marlesford asked Her Majesty's Government:
- For the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available, what is the total number of asylum cases which went to appeal and the total sum in legal aid which was paid out in respect of these cases; and in how many cases the appeal was upheld.[HL1357]
The Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): In the period October 2001 to September 2002, 60,450 appeals were determined by adjudicators, of which 13,240 were upheld. The figures do not include applications for leave to appeal to the Immigration Appeal Tribunal or hearings dealt with by the tribunal.
It is not possible to link the amount paid in legal aid to these cases.
Environmental Offences
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Which United Kingdom companies were prosecuted in 2002 for serious environmental offences which resulted in a fine of over £1,000; what were the nature of the offences; and how much they were fined.[HL1420]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Whitty): The Environment Agency is the primary agency in England and Wales that prosecutes environmental offences. Information on offences prosecuted by the Environment Agency in 2002 is listed in tabular form below, broken down into the eight regions of England and Wales for which the agency has responsibility, and into the top 10 fines for each region. Prosecution details for Scotland and Northern Ireland, and those for offences not prosecuted by the Environment Agency in England and Wales, are not held centrally.
During 2002, there were 357 prosecutions brought against companies by the Environment Agency: 855 offences were successfully prosecuted, which led to fines totalling £3,120,423. The average fine per offence was £3,649.62 and the average fine per prosecution was £8,740.68.
The figure of 357 prosecutions includes those where companies were prosecuted on more than one occasion during the year, for example United Utilities Water plc, or for more than one offence.
The top 10 fines in each agency region are shown in tabular form below.
| Company Name | Nature of Offence(s) | Total Fines (£) |
| Thames Water Utilities Limited | Water Quality | £155,000.00 |
| BP Oil (UK) Limited | Water Quality | £60,000.00 |
| Totalfinaelf UK Limited | Water Quality | £54,000.00 |
| S H Pratt and Company (Bananas) Limited | Waste | £53,000.00 |
| S Grundon (Ewelme) Limited | Water Quality | £50,000.00 |
| English, Welsh & Scottish Railway Limited | Water Quality | £24,000.00 |
| Budgens Stores Limited | Water Quality | £16,000.00 |
| Honda Trading Europe Limited | Water Quality | £12,000.00 |
| Nippon 2000 Spares and Tyres Company Limited | Water Quality | £12,000.00 |
| BP Mitchell Haulage Contractors Limited | Waste | £10,000.00 |
| Yoplait Dairy Crest Limited | Water Quality | £10,000.00 |
| Company Name | Nature of Offence(s) | Total Fines (£) |
| Anglian Water Services Limited | Water Quality | £270,000.00 |
| Shanks Waste Services Limited | Waste | £87,000.00 |
| Greenvale Foods Limited | Water Quality | £49,000.00 |
| Banham Poultry Limited | Water Quality | £24,000.00 |
| Jackson Building Centres Limited | Waste | £22,500.00 |
| Welding Alloys Limited | Waste | £15,000.00 |
| James A Gooding Limited | Water Quality | £15,000.00 |
| Junckers Limited | Waste | £13,500.00 |
| Middlebrook Mushrooms Limited | Water Quality | £12,000.00 |
| Easco Limited | Waste | £10,000.00 |
| Company Name | Nature of Offence(s) | Total Fines (£) |
| Kronospan Limited | Water Resources | £65,000.00 |
| Dwr Cymru Cyf | Water Quality | £24,000.00 |
| F & R Dunlop Services Limited | Waste | £13,000.00 |
| T Richard Jones (Betws) Limited | Waste | £8,500.00 |
| Amgen Rhondaa Limited | Water Quality | £8,000.00 |
| Macob Limited | Water Quality | £8,000.00 |
| Global Foods Limited | Waste | £8,000.00 |
| Konica Business Machines (UK) Limited | Waste | £8,000.00 |
| Rockfon Limited | Waste | £5,250.00 |
| South Wales Mineral Recycling Limited | Waste | £5,000.00 |
| Allied Carpet Group plc | Water Quality | £5,000.00 |
| Hogan (Construction) Ltd | Waste | £5,000.00 |
| Knolton Farmhouse Cheese Ltd | Water Quality | £5,000.00 |
| Company Name | Nature of Offence(s) | Total Fines (£) |
| Midland Waste Management Limited | Waste | £54,000.00 |
| Lear Corporation (Nottingham) Limited | Waste | £40,000.00 |
| Lear Corporation UK Interior Systems Limited | Waste | £40,000.00 |
| Torgam Developments Limited | Waste | £30,000.00 |
| Europackaging plc | Waste | £25,000.00 |
| Computer 2000 Distribution Limited | Waste | £25,000.00 |
| R Calder Skip Hire (Kidderminster) Limited | Waste | £20,200.00 |
| B & D Electroplaters Limited | Water Quality | £20,000.00 |
| Lear Corporation (UK) Limited | Waste | £16,000.00 |
| Bowood Event Hire Limited | Water Quality | £13,500.00 |
| Company Name | Nature of Offence(s) | Total Fines (£) |
| Cheepa Skips UK Limited | Waste | £25,000.00 |
| Huntsman Petrochemicals (UK) Limited | Water Quality | £23.000.00 |
| Yorkshire Water Services Limited | Water Quality | £22,000.00 |
| E Harper (York) Limited | Water Quality | £15,000.00 |
| Hedon Salads Limited | Waste | £15,000.00 |
| Leo Sawrij Limited | Waste | £10,500.00 |
| Peter Ward Homes Limited | Waste | £7,000.00 |
| Tillertech Limited | Water Quality | £7,000.00 |
| J N Bentley Limited | Water Quality | £6,000.00 |
| Contract Heat & Power Limited | Waste | £5,000.00 |
| Russell Construction (York) Limited | Waste | £5,000.00 |
| MKM Building Supplies Limited | Waste | £5,000.00 |
| Tay Homes plc | Water Quality | £5,000.00 |
| Company Name | Nature of Offence(s) | Total Fines (£) |
| United Utilities Water plc | Water Quality | £327,500.00 |
| Stationery Box Limited | Waste | £25,000.00 |
| Onyx Highmoor Limited | Waste | £21,000.00 |
| 3C Waste Limited | Waste | £17,000.00 |
| Bernstein Group plc | Waste | £16,000.00 |
| P W Greenhalgh & Company Limited | IPC | £15,000.00 |
| Sita (Lancashire) Limited | Waste | £14,000.00 |
| Paul Hartmann Limited | Waste | £11,500.00 |
| Bomacks Contractors Limited | Waste | £10,800.00 |
| Interbrew UK Limited | Water Quality | £10,000.00 |
| B Dugdale & Son Limited | Water Quality | £10,000.00 |
| Company Name | Nature of Offence(s) | Total Fines (£) |
| Albury Construction Limited | Water Quality | £40,000.00 |
| A & J Bull (Southern) Limited | Waste | £31,000.00 |
| Southern Water Services Limited | Water Quality | £21,000.00 |
| Skipaway Limited | Waste | £20,000.00 |
| St. James Haulage Limited | Waste | £12,500.00 |
| CPS Group Limited | Waste | £10,000.00 |
| Biffa Waste Services Limited | Waste | £8,500.00 |
| Thames Water Utilities Limited | Water Quality | £5,000.00 |
| R.H. Thompson & Company Limited | Waste | £4,500.00 |
| Hanson Quarry Products Europe Limited | Water Quality | £3,500.00 |
| Company Name | Nature of Offence(s) | Total Fines (£) |
| Faccenda Group | ||
| (South) Limited | ||
| Water Quality | £75,000.00 | |
| South West Water | ||
| Limited | ||
| Water Quality | £45,000.00 | |
| Hills Mineral & | ||
| Waste Limited | ||
| Waste | £20,000.00 | |
| Wessex Water | ||
| Services Limited | ||
| Water Quality | £18,000.00 | |
| Lawson Demolition | ||
| & Crushing Limited | ||
| Waste | £13,025.00 | |
| Consilium | ||
| Construction | ||
| Limited | ||
| Waste | £13,000.00 | |
| Tesco Stores | ||
| Limited | ||
| Water Quality | £10,000.00 | |
| Biffa Waste Services | ||
| Limited | ||
| Waste | £7,000.00 | |
| Bath Demolition | ||
| and Crushing | ||
| Company Limited | ||
| Waste | £5,250.00 | |
| Valley Waste | ||
| Management | ||
| Limited | ||
| Water Resources | £5,000.00 | |
| Bourne Leisure | ||
| Limited | ||
| Water Resources | £5,000.00 | |
| Converters | ||
| (European) Limited | ||
| Waste | £5,000.00 | |
| T J Brent Limited | ||
| Waste | £5,000.00 | |
| Hall & Woodhouse | ||
| Limited | ||
| Water Quality | £5,000.00 |
NHS Foundation Trusts
Baroness Noakes asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 15 January (WA 45), whether the existence of a private finance initiative contract has any bearing on the prudential borrowing limit to be set for National Health Service foundation trusts; and, if so, how it will be taken into account.[HL1254]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath): Any private finance initiative charges paid by NHS foundation trusts will reduce their ability to service borrowing. Each NHS foundation trust will be able to borrow up to a prudential limit assessed by the independent regulator based on the individual NHS foundation trust's ability to service the borrowing.
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