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Capacity For Handling Hazardous Waste

EDM number 615 in 2003-04, proposed by Sue Doughty on 11/02/2004.

That this House notes that the Government has known since 1999 that from July co-disposal of hazardous waste and non-hazardous waste will no longer be permitted at landfill sites; that the Government has failed to publish precise treatment standards for hazardous waste required from July which the industry needs in order to meet the requirements; is concerned that there will be insufficient treatment capacity and an expected fall in the number of eligible disposal sites from 218 to 37; believes that further time has been wasted in dealing with this problem by setting up a hazardous waste forum which took a year to identify issues which were known already; anticipates a rise in environmental crime resulting from lack of facilities particularly in the South East of England; agrees with Sir John Harman, Chairman of the Environment Agency, who in his speech on hazardous waste on 23rd October 2003 to the All Party Sustainable Waste Group said that 'Government needs to provide industry and regulators with clear leadership'; and calls upon the Government to address the problem of hazardous waste as a matter of extreme urgency and to ensure that the Environment Agency allows sufficient resources to deal with this and to tackle the increase in environmental crime which can be expected as a result of failure to manage this problem.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Sue Doughty11/02/2004GuildfordLiberal DemocratProposed
David Rendel11/02/2004NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Willis11/02/2004Harrogate & KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Williams11/02/2004Brecon & RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Tyler11/02/2004North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Sarah Teather11/02/2004Brent EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell11/02/2004Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Beith11/02/2004Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Baker11/02/2004LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Gidley11/02/2004RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Annette Brooke11/02/2004Mid Dorset & North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed11/02/2004South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake11/02/2004Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Laws11/02/2004YeovilLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Lamb11/02/2004North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
Evan Harris11/02/2004Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell11/02/2004ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Patsy Calton11/02/2004CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George12/02/2004St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Thomas12/02/2004CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Paul Marsden23/02/2004Shrewsbury & AtchamLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock23/02/2004Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable23/02/2004TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Holmes24/02/2004ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes24/02/2004North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Jones26/02/2004CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Matthew Taylor26/02/2004Truro & St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey10/03/2004North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Alistair Carmichael14/07/2004Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward Davey14/07/2004Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned

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