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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2017 to Question 117198, on incinerators, whether the permitted capacity for incineration includes (a) existing capacity, (b) capacity under construction and (c) capacity for which planning permission has been granted but construction has not yet commenced.

The Environment Agency compiles and publishes waste incineration figures for England on an annual basis. The latest figures (for the year 2016) are available on gov.uk here. In 2016 the total capacity in England was 15,482,000 tonnes. The figures for 2017 capacity are not yet available and will be published on gov.uk later this year.

The Environment Agency does not hold figures for the capacity under construction or for which planning permission has been granted but construction has not yet started.