To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on the classes of material banned from passage through the channel tunnel for reasons of public safety. [9206]

The Channel Tunnel Intergovernmental Commission, on the advice of the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority, has approved a carriage list of dangerous goods allowed through the channel tunnel. Three classes of dangerous goods are excluded from the list: class 4.2—substances liable to spontaneous combustion; class 4.3—substances which in contact with water emit flammable gases; class 5.2—organic peroxides.