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Number of notices and offences
	2003		2004
Police force area	Fixed penalty notices issued	Total prosecutions	Fixed penalty notices issued	Total prosecutions
Avon and Somerset	31	122	26	97
Bedfordshire	4	16	6	3
Cambridgeshire	10	14	22	10
Cheshire	12	14	14	11
Cleveland	11	27	23	9
Cumbria	14	27	13	31
Derbyshire	16	101	16	78
Devon and Cornwall	35	83	56	78
Dorset	15	18	10	12
Durham	18	101	13	61
Essex	20	38	35	28
Gloucestershire	10	53	4	38
Greater Manchester	34	238	52	98
Hampshire	25	135	32	102
Hertfordshire	7	55	14	45
Humberside	12	50	5	25
Kent	38	97	34	116
Lancashire	85	100	81	37
Leicestershire	11	63	3	50
Lincolnshire	182	89	251	101
London, City of	86	15	32	12
Merseyside	8	20	17	15
Metropolitan Police	65	140	83	142
Norfolk	17	89	29	65
Northamptonshire	4	49	0	34
Northumbria	90	103	111	75
North Yorkshire	91	19	252	18
Nottinghamshire	5	35	7	21
South Yorkshire	11	53	23	28
Staffordshire	12	21	12	22
Suffolk	10	83	18	121
Surrey	35	37	33	40
Sussex	14	22	15	12
Thames Valley	39	47	90	27
Warwickshire	12	14	9	15
West Mercia	35	40	30	42
West Midlands	21	91	23	67
West Yorkshire	25	121	22	65
Wiltshire	38	56	25	50
Dyfed Powys	42	48	8	31
Gwent	31	20	34	19
North Wales	0	53	0	62
South Wales	10	36	27	35
England and Wales	1,291	2,653	1,610	2,048
n/a = Not available. (1) Aiding, abetting, causing or permitting a crime is shown under the heading of the crime itself. (2) Estimates made for Staffordshire Police Force who were only able to submit data for a sample of weeks in 2000, have been included in totals only. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Natural England

Mr. Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 13 September 2006, Official Report, column 2259W, on Natural England, what the (a) original and (b) revised 2006-07 budget agreed for Natural England was; and what plans he has for the 2007-08 budget. [91786]

Barry Gardiner: Natural England inherited its budget for 2006-07 from English Nature, the Rural Development Service and parts of the Countryside Agency, which came together to create the new organisation. It is therefore not strictly possible to make the comparison the hon. Member is looking for.

I cannot confirm Natural England's 2007-08 budget yet. In common with other non-departmental public bodies, they are preparing their corporate plan for discussion through the autumn.

Nuclear Waste

Mr. Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much has been spent on research into means of nuclear waste disposal in the last 12 months. [90209]

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Ian Pearson: The Department spent £91,097 on direct research projects into radioactive waste disposal in the last financial year.

Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he expects to respond to the recommendations of the Committee on Radioactive Waste; and which bodies he is consulting in preparing his response. [92423]

Ian Pearson: The UK Government and the devolved administrations are continuing to work together to develop policy in light of the recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM). A full response will be made to the respective parliaments and the National Assembly for Wales when they are sitting after recess. CoRWM themselves undertook an extensive programme of engagement with the public and stakeholders in preparing their recommendations. Further information is available on their website at: http://www.corwm.org.uk

Recycling

Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many local authorities in England do not provide doorstep recycling programmes. [89195]

Mr. Bradshaw: Every English local authority with a standard waste collection authority responsibility operates a kerbside recycling scheme.

Under the Household Waste Recycling Act 2003, all local authorities in England will be required to collect at least two types of recyclable waste from all households in their area by the end of 2010.

Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what progress has been made towards achieving the 45 per cent. recycling target set for 2015. [89259]

Mr. Bradshaw: Recycling continues to play an important role in diverting waste from landfill and recovering value from waste, in line with the Government's waste strategy objectives.

Household waste recycling and composting has doubled in the last four years since the publication of Waste Strategy 2000 (and tripled in the last eight years). In 1999, less than 11 per cent. of household waste was recycled; this now stands at 23 per cent. (2004-5), putting us well on course to meet the waste strategy targets of 25 per cent. by 2005-06 and 33 per cent. by 2015.

The recent consultation on the review of the waste strategy included proposals to raise the national targets for household waste recycling and composting to even more ambitious levels, to reach 45 per cent. by 2015 and 50 per cent. by 2020. The revised waste strategy is due to be published this winter.

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