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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason annual reports regarding emissions of particulate matter from energy from waste sites at (a) Twinwoods Heat and Power Bedfordshire, (b) Thetford Power Station, (c) Stallingborough, (d) Hartlepool Power Station, (e) Immingham Dock, (f) Oldbury, (g) Exeter Energy From Waste, (h) Slough heat and Power and (i) Calder Valley Incineration were not included in the 2016 Pollution Inventory.

Total particulate matter is continuously monitored at all operational waste incinerators.

The reason emissions of particulate matter from some waste sites were omitted from the pollution inventory is that their emissions were below reporting thresholds in 2016. This includes Thetford Power Station, Stallinborough, Oldbury, Slough Heat and Power, and Exeter Energy From Waste.

Annual reports regarding emissions of particulate matter from Twinwoods Heat and Power Bedfordshire were not included in the 2016 pollution inventory because no report was submitted by the operator. The Environment Agency is currently reviewing why no report was submitted by the operator in 2016 and will ensure that all emissions data is proided as required under the relevant legislation.

No emissions were reported from the Immingham Dock and Calder Valley incinerators because they were non-operational in 2016.

Hartlepool Power Station is a nuclear power station and not an energy from waste site.