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Waste Management: Fees and Charges

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]


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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:

Waste Management: Finance

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: DEFRA’s 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

Action Sustainability

0

0.219

Carbon Trust

3

23.382

DEFRA’s Waste Data Strategy

0.5

2.1

Environment Agency

2

4.454

Envirowise

12

16.772

Market Transformation Programme

2.65

2.8955

National Industrial Symbiosis Programme

2.675

5.7

Regional Development Agencies

5

11.71

Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts—Business Reuse Fund

0

2

Technology Strategy Board

2

5.654

WRAP

2.854

6.288

Other (includes coordination, communication, pilot projects, funding for agricultural waste project and programme contingency fund)

0.321

3.24

Total

33

84.415


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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)

Carbon Trust

Energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction activities

13.618

WRAP

Work with the construction, manufacturing, retail and recycling and reprocessing industries to reduce waste and encourage recycling

4.7

Total

18.318


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

Waste diverted from landfill

675,000 tonnes

Carbon savings

320,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide

Virgin raw material savings

682,000 tonnes

Hazardous waste savings

120,000 tonnes

Water savings

5,630,000 cubic metres


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

Carbon Trust

57.6

41.644

Envirowise

2.292

2.292

WRAP

67.605

51.58


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]


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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

Action Sustainability

0

0.219

Carbon Trust

3

23.382

DEFRA’s Waste Data Strategy

0.5

2.1

Environment Agency

2

4.454

Envirowise

12

16.772

Market Transformation Programme

2.65

2.8955

National Industrial Symbiosis Programme

2.675

5.7

Regional Development Agencies

5

11.71

Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts—Business Reuse Fund

0

2

Technology Strategy Board

2

5.654

WRAP

2.854

6.288

Other (includes coordination, communication, pilot projects, funding for agricultural waste project and programme contingency fund)

0.321

3.24

Total

33

84.415


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)

Carbon Trust

Energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction activities

13.618

WRAP

Work with the construction, manufacturing, retail and recycling and reprocessing industries to reduce waste and encourage recycling

4.7

Total

18.318


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.


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Communities and Local Government

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council: Local Government Finance

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
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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

1993-94

86,867

6,359

25,844

32,203

1994-95

93,410

7.5

6,902

25,034

31,936

1995-96

95,033

1.7

6,219

25,839

32,058

1996-97

97,357

2.4

5,744

25,950

31,694

1997-98

95,044

-2.4

4,601

28,058

32,659

1998-99

103,034

8.4

5,201

25,576

30,777

1999-2000

108,971

5.8

6,603

25,502

32,105

2000-01

118,915

9.1

11,908

23,567

35,475

2001-02

125,262

5.3

15,601

22,683

38,284

2002-03

135,070

7.8

21,411

28,892

50,303

2003-04

155,201

14.9

27,393

25,168

52,561

2004-05

170,860

10.1

33,863

47,464

81,327

2005-06

181,131

6.0

35,932

72,999

108,931

2006-07

190,238

5.0

133,582

58,891

192,473

(1) Includes specific grants within AEF.
Source:
Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn (RO) returns

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