Select Committee on Science and Technology Minutes of Evidence

Supplementary memorandum by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

The Committee has requested clarification on the funding totals for the last three years and for 2008-09 for the Market Transformation Programme, the Waste and Resources Action Programme, the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme, and Envirowise.

THE TOTALS FOR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING FOR THE FOUR PROGRAMMES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
Market Transformation Programme	Total—£4.27m Comprising: BREW Programme —2.7m Other Defra programmes —1.57m	Total—£4.68m Comprising: BREW Programme —3.17m Other Defra programmes —1.51m	Total—£4.8m Comprising: BREW Programme —3.895m Other Defra programmes —0.905m	Total—£2.75m
National Industrial Symbiosis Programme	Total—£2.675m (all BREW Programme)	Total—£5.7m (all BREW Programme)	Total—£8.25m (all BREW Programme)	Total—£5.025m
Envirowise	Total— £15.542m Comprising: BREW Programme —12m Other Defra programmes —2.292m DTI—1.25m	Total—£20.002m Comprising: BREW Programme —17m Other Defra programmes —2.292m DTI—0.710m	Total—£22.19m (all BREW Programme)	Total—£9.390m
Waste and Resources Action Programme	Total—£68.147m Comprising: BREW Programme —2.701m Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund —5.620m Other Defra Programmes —59.826m	Total—£57.888m Comprising: BREW Programme —5.736m Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund —2.607m Other Defra Programmes —49.545m	Total—£59.012m Comprising: BREW Programme —12.174m Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund —2.7m Other Defra programmes —44.1383m	Total—£43.223m Comprising: Core Defra funding —39.973m Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund —3.25m
Note: Figures given for England only. Envirowise, WRAP and NISP also receive funding from the Devolved Administrations. From 2008-09 there is no separately-identified Business Resource Efficiency and Waste (BREW) programme; a number of BREW-type activities remain funded as part of "core Defra" programmes. June 2008

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