Food: Waste Disposal
Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Andrew Rosindell (Romford, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether she has any plans to build further anaerobic digesters like the one recently built in Didcot.
Richard Benyon (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Natural Environment and Fisheries), Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Newbury, Conservative)
The Department is aware of two anaerobic digestion (AD) sites being built in England, which are designed to feed biomethane into the gas grid. These sites are in Poundbury in Dorset and Stockport in Greater Manchester. Poundbury is due to become operational this autumn and Stockport by early 2013.