To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what amount of radioactive waste was handled by the Edmonton waste incinerator in (a) 1996 and (b) 1997; and what monitoring procedures are in place at the incinerator to monitor levels of radioactivity. [11044]

The disposal of radioactive waste is regulated in England and Wales by the Environment Agency under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. I understand that the agency has neither received an application for authorisation nor issued an authorisation under the Act to dispose of radioactive waste at the Edmonton waste incinerator.