Waste
Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Written answers and statements, 7 April 2005
Mr Adrian Flook (Taunton, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discussions she has had with local authorities concerning Schedule 2 of the Statutory Controlled Waste Regulations 1992; and what guidance she has issued to local authorities on that schedule.
Mr Elliot Morley (Minister of State (Environment and Agri-Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Scunthorpe, Labour)
Guidance was issued (Circular 14/92) 1 at the time of the publication of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992. Defra has more recently (October 2004) 2 issued further guidance to local authorities on the management of asbestos waste from domestic property, a waste type specified within Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992.
I am not aware that my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, has held any discussions with local authorities concerning Schedule 2.
1 Circular 14/92 (Department of the Environment) The Environmental Protection Act 1990—Parts II and IV The Controlled Waste Regulations 1992.
2 Correspondence to the chief executive of all waste collection authorities, waste disposal authorities and joint waste disposal authorities in England on the management of asbestos waste from domestic property also available on the Defra website at http://defraweb/environment/waste/localauth/pdf/asbestos-domestic. pdf