PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Clinical Waste (10 October 2018)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of on-site clinical waste facilities at hospitals.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

Answer

There are three hospital sites that own onsite clinical waste incineration facilities, Addenbrookes, Plymouth, and Wolverhampton.

National Health Service Trusts have their own contracts for waste removal. In 2017 the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs found that there was over 30,000 tonnes of spare operational clinical and hazardous waste capacity.


Answered by:
Steve Barclay (Conservative)
15 October 2018

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