To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the ports that received toxic waste in each year since 1987, the quantity of such waste imported, the composition of the waste, and the country of origin and ultimate destination of the waste.

[holding answer 21 June 1990]: The information is available in the detail required only since the introduction of Transfrontier Shipment of Hazardous Waste Regulations 1988. Provisional figures for imports of hazardous wastes through English ports in the year to 31 March 1990 by country of origin and destination, and by waste disposal authority, are as follows. Figures for types of waste imported are summarised, as information for individual ports is not available in a concise form.