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Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 30 October 2007, Official Report, column 1181W, on waste management: fees and charges, what provisions apply to the collection of household waste from charged-for receptacles where the householder provides their own receptacles to the necessary specifications. [192327]
Joan Ruddock: The provisions relating to a local authority's duty to collect waste are set out in section 45 and section 46 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
As set out in section 46(3), the same provisions apply whether authorities:
(i) provide the receptacles free of charge;
(ii) provide the receptacles and ask the occupier to pay for them;
(iii) require the occupier to provide the receptacles himself if he does not agree to pay for them within a specified period; or
(iv) require the occupier to provide the receptacles himself from the outset.
Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what funding from (a) the Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Programme and (b) other funding streams within his responsibility has been provided to (i) the Carbon Trust, (ii) Envirowise, (iii) the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme and (iv) Wrap in (A) 2005-06 and (B) 2006-07; and what the volume was of (1) landfill diverted (tonnes), (2) carbon dioxide emissions averted, (3) virgin materials not used, (4) hazardous waste reduced and (5) amount of water saved (tonnes) as a result of this expenditure. [174312]
Joan Ruddock: DEFRAs Business Resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) programme is returning £284 million raised from the landfill tax escalator back to businesses between 2005 and 2008. Work is being taken forward to improve businesses resource efficiency and to minimise waste that is unnecessarily sent to landfill. Funds are awarded to a number of regional and national BREW delivery bodies. Allocations for 2005 to 2007 are set out in the following table.
£ million | ||
Delivery body | Budget 2005-06 | Budget 2006-07 |
Other (includes coordination, communication, pilot projects, funding for agricultural waste project and programme contingency fund) | ||
The BREW Programme has also continued to provide funding towards other business resource efficiency and waste activities in England, as shown:
Delivery body | Activity | 2006-07 funding (£ million) |
Work with the construction, manufacturing, retail and recycling and reprocessing industries to reduce waste and encourage recycling | ||
In 2005-06, the delivery bodies referred to in the question achieved the short-term savings aggregated in the following table. These show the results for £18.5 million of all £33 million of projects funded from the BREW Programme.
The results must be viewed with caution, since delivery bodies report according to a range of methodologies. Work is under way to improve consistency of this reporting and to apply reporting more widely. The results are only for BREW-funded activities. Some savings will result from these interventions in future years, which are not counted here.
Metric | In-year result |
DEFRA has not yet released individual delivery body results for 2005-06. These include some selected long-term results, which are not included in the aforementioned table. Similarly, work is currently underway to verify BREW Programme results for 2006-07. I will deposit both sets of results in the House Library when they are ready.
In addition to funding from the BREW Programme, DEFRA has provided the following funding to the delivery bodies as follows. NISP has not received any non-BREW funding from DEFRA.
£ million | ||
2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was allocated to each organisation in the business resource efficiency and waste partnership for (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07. [175407]
Joan Ruddock [holding answer 18 December 2007]: Final allocations for the Business Resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) Programme are set out as follows:
£ million | ||
Delivery body | Budget 2005-06 | Budget 2006-07 |
Other (includes coordination, communication, pilot projects, funding for agricultural waste project and programme contingency fund) | ||
BREW has also provided funding towards other business resource efficiency and waste activities in England, including £18.318 million in 2006-07 for the following:
Delivery body | Activity | 2006-07 funding (£ million) |
Work with the construction, manufacturing, retail and recycling and reprocessing industries to reduce waste and encourage recycling | ||
These demonstrate that over the two year period from 2005 to 2007, at least £135 million of funding has been spent by DEFRA on business resource efficiency activities through the three years of the BREW programme.
David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what funding has been allocated by his Department to the Business Resource Efficiency and Waste programme for financial year 2008-09. [193022]
Joan Ruddock: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 March 2008, Official Report, column 2274W.
Mr. Chaytor:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much Bury Metropolitan Borough Council received from the Government in (a) revenue and (b) specific grant in
each year since the introduction of council tax; and what the percentage change in revenue grant was in each such year. [190662]
John Healey: The level of annual central Government revenue grant, the percentage change from the previous year and total specific grants awarded to Bury Metropolitan borough council since council tax was introduced is tabled as follows.
£000 | |||||
Central Government revenue grant( 1) (£000) | Percentage change from previous year | Specific grants within AEF | Specific grants outside AEF | Total specific grants | |
(1) Includes specific grants within AEF. Source: Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn (RO) returns |
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