Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to require operators of waste incineration plants to (a) monitor and (b) publish levels of emissions of (i) dioxins and (ii) furans.

Operators of waste incineration plants must carry out at least two measurements per year of dioxins and furans (increased to one measurement at least every three months in the first 12 months of the plant’s operation). The results of these measurements are reported to the Environment Agency which places them on the public register.