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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of Eunomia's Residual Waste Infrastructure Review, Issue 12, published in July 2017, which concluded that there is overcapacity in the incinerator sector in the UK.

The incineration of waste with energy recovery (also known as energy from waste) plays an important role in diverting waste from landfill but is lower in the waste hierarchy, which prioritises prevention, recycling and the re-use of waste.

We will consider the findings of Eunomia, on waste infrastructure capacity as we develop future policy on waste and resources.