Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has identified waste disposal facilities in south-east England with like-for-like spare capacity to deal with the closure of Lakeside Energy from Waste in the event of a third runway being constructed at Heathrow.

The Government has not sought to identify specific like for like energy from waste facilities to manage the loss of the Lakeside plant. DEFRA’s assessment used publicly available data on waste disposal held by the Environment Agency to confirm that the Lakeside energy from waste plant is not a strategic asset.