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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency's key performance indicator that 97% of permitted waste sites should be in compliance bands A, B or C is calculated including sites that have not been inspected; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of that key performance indicator.

The Government accepts the Office for Environmental Protection’s recommendation for the review of the performance indicators. Defra will work with the Agency to ensure these are robust and appropriately ambitious.