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Abandoned Cars

Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many abandoned cars each local authority in England and Wales stated they had removed in their submissions to the Municipal Waste Survey 2000–01. [75174]

Mr. Meacher [holding answer 21 October 2002]: Figures from the 2000–01 Municipal Waste Management Survey show that 288 local authorities in England and Wales, out of a total of 376, responded to the number of abandoned vehicles question in the Municipal Waste Management Survey 2000–01 in England and Wales. The authorities and the numbers of abandoned vehicles removed and destroyed reported are listed below:

Local Authority	Number of Abandoned vehicles
Adur	793
Alnwick	54
Amber Valley	147
Arun	590
Ashford	612
Aylesbury Vale	507
Babergh	391
Barking and Dagenham	2,761
Barnet	3,287
Barnsley	248
Basildon	1,529
Basingstoke and Deane	780
Bassetlaw	92
Bath and NE Somerset	796
Bedford	876
Bexley	1,356
Birmingham	5,466
Blaby	113
Blaenau Gwent	960
Blyth Valley	110
Bolsover	249
Boston	65
Bournemouth	878
Bracknell Forest	707
Bradford	2,600
Braintree	554
Breckland	238
Brent	3,471
Brentwood	400
Bridgnorth	37
Brighton and Hove	4,000
Bromley	3,895
Bromsgrove	119
Broxbourne	1,393
Broxtowe	171
Caerphilly	1,800
Calderdale	441
Cambridge	261
Camden	1,629
Cannock Chase	30
Canterbury	809
Caradon	108
Carmarthenshire	120
Carrick	174
Castle Point	450
Ceredigion	150
Charnwood	153
Chelmsford	800
Chesterfield	45
Chester-le-Street	18
Chichester	600
Chiltern	195
Christchurch	73
City of Bristol	2,590
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	717
City of London	0
Colchester	319
Conwy	250
Corby	504
Cotswold	67
County of Herefordshire	368
Craven	0
Crawley	1,145
Croydon	2,878
Dacorum	1,150
Darlington	98
Dartford	483
Daventry	388
Derby	579
Derbyshire Dales	40
Derwentside	15
Doncaster	410
Dover	469
Dudley	234
Durham City	39
Ealing	3,754
Easington	14
East Cambridgeshire	330
East Devon	288
East Dorset	279
East Hampshire	209
East Hertfordshire	355
East Lindsey	226
East Northamptonshire	191
East Riding of Yorkshire	227
East Staffordshire	164
Eastbourne	631
Eastleigh	200
Enfield	4,711
Epping Forest	1,838
Epsom and Ewell	360
Erewash	270
Fenland	176
Flintshire	100
Forest Heath	145
Forest of Dean	186
Gateshead	149
Gloucester	700
Gosport	496
Gravesham	884
Great Yarmouth	255
Greenwich	3,120
Guildford	724
Gwynedd	619
Hackney	2,700
Hambleton	96
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,430
Harborough	550
Haringey	6,500
Harlow	1,240
Harrogate	143
Harrow	1,914
Hart	256
Hartlepool	55
Hastings	1,100
Havant	897
Havering	1,250
Hertsmere	534
High Peak	87
Hillingdon	2,286
Hinckley and Bosworth	353
Horsham	173
Hounslow	2,247
Ipswich	785
Isles of Scilly	0
Islington	2,619
Kennet	54
Kensington and Chelsea	195
Kerrier	232
Kettering	350
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	271
Kingston upon Thames	739
Kirklees	287
Lambeth	3,308
Leeds	877
Leicester	1,416
Lewes	470
Lewisham	5,000
Lichfield	271
Lincoln	136
Luton	2,403
Maidstone	1,015
Mansfield	650
Medway	1,157
Melton	30
Mendip	250
Merthyr Tydfil	482
Merton	1,683
Mid Bedfordshire	584
Mid Devon	376
Mid Suffolk	145
Mid Sussex	347
Mole Valley	621
Monmouthshire	244
New Forest	474
Newark and Sherwood	289
Newcastle-under-Lyme	150
Newham	6,704
Newport	789
North Cornwall	266
North Devon	33
North Dorset	60
North East Derbyshire	70
North East Lincolnshire	267
North Hertfordshire	332
North Kesteven	101
North Lincolnshire	135
North Norfolk	66
North Somerset	570
North Tyneside	451
North Warwickshire	133
North West Leicestershire	267
Northampton	1,682
Norwich	351
Nottingham	586
Nuneaton and Bedworth	183
Oadby and Wigston	58
Oswestry	129
Oxford	1,455
Pembrokeshire	487
Plymouth	1,779
Poole	649
Portsmouth	826
Powys	606
Purbeck	89
Reading	1,090
Redbridge	1,562
Reigate and Banstead	718
Restormel	266
Richmond upon Thames	1,201
Richmondshire	9
Rother	336
Rotherham	150
Runnymede	609
Rushcliffe	181
Rushmoor	375
Rutland	100
Ryedale	45
Salisbury	354
Sandwell	6,639
Scarborough	543
Sedgefield	80
Sedgemoor	377
Selby	120
Sevenoaks	498
Sheffield	100
Shepway	733
Shrewsbury and Atcham	86
Slough	669
Solihull	275
South Bedfordshire	500
South Cambridgeshire	100
South Derbyshire	154
South Gloucestershire	987
South Kesteven	148
South Norfolk	116
South Northamptonshire	140
South Oxfordshire	418
South Shropshire	7
South Somerset	356
South Staffordshire	48
South Tyneside	415
Southampton	1,132
Southend-on-Sea	1,132
Southwark	1,934
Spelthorne	596
St. Albans	486
St. Edmundsbury	760
Stafford	37
Staffordshire Moorlands	26
Stevenage	598
Stockton-on-Tees	39
Stoke-on-Trent	250
Stratford-on-Avon	43
Stroud	51
Suffolk Coastal	165
Sunderland	197
Surrey Heath	226
Sutton	1,651
Swale	738
Swindon	440
Tamworth	60
Tandridge	500
Taunton Deane	248
Teesdale	17
Teignbridge	741
Telford and Wrekin	1,332
Tendring	835
Test Valley	406
Tewkesbury	115
Thanet	950
The Vale of Glamorgan	264
Three Rivers	351
Tonbridge and Malling	557
Torbay	354
Torfaen	668
Torridge	111
Tunbridge Wells	688
Tynedale	29
Uttlesford	250
Vale of White Horse	464
Walsall	976
Waltham Forest	2,716
Wandsworth	2,571
Warwick	137
Watford	822
Waveney	115
Waverley	343
Wealden	483
Wear Valley	40
Wellingborough	290
Welwyn Hatfield	1,000
West Berkshire	697
West Dorset	232
West Oxfordshire	290
West Somerset	64
West Wiltshire	113
Westminster	496
Weymouth and Portland	85
Winchester	263
Windsor and Maidenhead	488
Woking	352
Wolverhampton	381
Worcester	316
Worthing	310
Wrexham	231
Wychavon	90
Wycombe	1,155

Note:

A total of 238 thousand abandoned vehicles was estimated for England and Wales in 2000–01, which includes an estimation for the non-responding authorities.

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Planning Applications

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many areas of outstanding natural beauty or SSSIs have been the subject of planning applications in each of the past 10 years. [76466]

Alun Michael: This level of information is not collected and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Agricultural Wages Board

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what economic assessment has been made of the cost of the recent

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Agricultural Wages Board settlement on (a) agriculture, (b) horticulture, (c) the soft fruit sector and (d) the top fruit sector. [75915]

Alun Michael: Following the Agricultural Wages Board annual pay negotiations on 3/4 July, an assessment of the impact of the proposed changes to be included in the 2002 Wages Order was issued by the Board's Secretariat on 5 August 2002. Copies were sent to all the people who requested further information on the Board's proposals. This showed the increased cost to the agriculture industry in England and Wales over the period 1 October 2002 to 30 June 2003, resulting from the proposed changes, to be between #57 and #69 million. These costings were derived from the Ready Reckoner prepared annually by Defra for the Board to use during the pay negotiations. Cost estimates for individual sectors of the industry were not prepared.

Cost assessments were also prepared by the National Farmers Union and the Transport and General Workers Union. Defra statisticians also reviewed the results of the September 2001 Earnings and Hours Survey and submitted a paper to the Board showing how this would affect the Board's assessment of the impact of the 2002 proposals. In addition Defra economists prepared a paper for the Board, providing an update on the economic performance of each of the key sectors in the agriculture and horticulture industry. The Board's Secretariat has confirmed that all these papers were considered by a meeting of the Board's Working Party which took place on 27 August (immediately prior to the Board's Confirmation meeting on 29 August). This meeting was intended to ensure that both sides of the Board and the Independent members had a clear understanding of how the proposals would impact on both the employers' costs and workers' pay.

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