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Gregory Barker
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list landfill sites which are (a) unlined and (b) permitted to receive low-level radioactive waste. [117533]
Mr. Morley
There are a total of 280 operational landfill sites which are unlined. Details of these sites have been placed in the Library of the House. They are
| Landfill site | Location | Engineered containment status |
| Cowpen Bewley | Billingham, Cleveland | No engineered containment (unlined), excavated in clay |
| Hilts Quarry | Crich, Derbyshire | No engineered containment (unlined) |
| Magnesium Elektron Swinton | Swinton, Greater Manchester | No engineered containment (unlined) |
| Vickers Waste Ponds | Walney Island, Cumbria | No engineered containment (unlined) |
| Braziers Landfill | Hertfordshire | No engineered containment (unlined) |