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Mr. Lidington
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) how many hazardous waste landfill sites operate in the United Kingdom; how many of these are in-house sites; and if she will make a statement; [89753](2) how many landfill sites have submitted applications to deal with hazardous waste after July 2004; how many of these are in-house sites; and if she will make a statement. [89754]
| Government funding per year (£1,000s) | |||||||||||
| Region | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | Total |
| East Midlands | 44 | 49 | 82 | 90 | 72 | 109 | 67 | 120 | 154 | 109 | 894 |
| Eastern | 36 | 27 | 15 | 9 | 21 | 6 | 24 | 15 | 15 | 25 | 186 |
| Greater London | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 52 |
| North East | 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 13 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 93 | 192 |
| North West | 17 | 16 | 42 | 4 | 18 | 42 | 31 | 25 | 72 | 170 | 437 |
| South East | 17 | 62 | 42 | 52 | 57 | 234 | 196 | 159 | 284 | 546 | 1,648 |
| South West | 15 | 51 | 147 | 81 | 173 | 333 | 360 | 390 | 395 | 595 | 2,541 |
Margaret Beckett
The information that is available on landfill sites relates to England and Wales and comes from a conditioning plan exercise conducted by the Environment Agency. The figures requested are set out in the table, broken down by region:
| Hazardous | Hazardous | |||
| Region | (post 2002) | Of which in-house1 | (post 2004) | Of which in-house1 |
| Anglian | 47 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
| Midlands | 42 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| North East | 39 | 10 | 11 | 6 |
| North | ||||
| West | 27 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| South West | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Southern | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Thames | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Wales | 15 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| Total | 218 | 36 | 38 | 24 |
| 1 In-house is defined as those landfill sites owned and operated by a company for disposal of its own waste. | ||||