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date	14/10/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Ports: Dredging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support her Department has given to recycling initiatives of spoil wastes from harbour dredging.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	11799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>There are a number of good examples where support has been provided to the successful, beneficial re-use and recycling of dredged materials, including land formation at Allfleet’s Marsh on Wallasea Island, beach replenishment in Poole Bay and land claim undertaken to construct the London Gateway Port in the Thames Estuary. In addition, in 2014 the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) published research on the potential to improve the co-ordination of such projects in the future.</p><br /><p>The UK Marine Policy Statement (2011) states that applications to dispose of wastes must demonstrate that appropriate consideration has been given to the internationally agreed hierarchy of waste management options for sea disposal, which includes recycling.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/10/2015 15:21:51 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

421467

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Ports: Dredging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department has had with the International Maritime Organisation on (a) disposal and (b) recycling of spoil waste from the dredging of harbours.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	11800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) provides the secretariat for the London Protocol, to which the UK is party.</p><br /><p>Under this global instrument (and the OSPAR Convention) that aims to protect the marine environment from pollution caused by dumping at sea, the UK has agreed guidelines on the management of dredged materials and the encouragement of its re-use and recycling. Moreover, we provide data on the disposal of dredged materials to the IMO (and the OSPAR Convention).</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/10/2015 15:25:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden