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answering dept id	13
min answer › question first answered	2019-06-25T12:03:46.203Z
hansard heading	Landfill: Safety

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20/03/2024

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Landfill: Safety

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25259

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency has made a recent assessment of the safety of historic landfill sites that are in close proximity to urban areas.

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Lewisham West and Penge

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Ellie Reeves

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19663

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is ministerial correction

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26/03/2024

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Local Authorities have the statutory duty to inspect their Areas to identify contaminated land (including historic landfills and non-permitted sites) in accordance with a written inspection strategy which they must publish and maintain. The Environment Agency has responsibility to require those responsible to remediate historic landfills and non-permitted sites if they have been determined as contaminated land and designated as a ‘special site’ by the local authority under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Since 2000, 54 sites have been designated as special sites including 13 historic landfills <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.data.gov.uk%2Fdataset%2Fe3770885-fc05-4813-9e60-42b03ec411cf%2Fcontaminated-land-special-sites&data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C54992b60b7134e38dfb508dc4a809abc%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638467163410647727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Qslv7CQHLKI6p0%2BvvXg4Xg%2FzpwVaPz71zRcu3stJrgk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Contaminated Land Special Sites - data.gov.uk</a>

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Keighley

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Robbie Moore

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26/03/2024 14:52:37

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	label	Biography information for Ellie Reeves