§ Mrs. PeacockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which local authorities will receive sup-plementary credit approvals for recycling; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MacleanMy noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment is today announcing the allocation of £15 million in supplementary credit approvals for recycling investment by English local authorities. Local authorities are now more involved in recycling than ever before. Today's announcement continues our programme of support for recycling which is very important in helping authorities to implement their recycling strategies.
Now that the vast majority of waste collection authorities have prepared their recycling plans, many are keen to start implementing them. Many waste disposal authorities are also eager to do more. So it is no surprise that the demand for supplementary credit approvals (SCAs) for recycling has been higher than ever this year.
Under our environmental partnership scheme, the aim is to maximise investment in recycling by combining SCAs with authorities' own capital receipts and private sector contributions. Schemes which do this have done best in this year's allocations.
But many other schemes have also received support. We have given particular priority to schemes to collect waste oil and CFCs for recycling. Altogether supplemen-tary credit approvals have been distributed to 161 authorities for 307 schemes, ranging from home composing projects to mini recycling centres.
We received bids totalling £35 million so we have had to take some tough decisions in making allocations. Each 286W authority is today being notified of the outcome of its bid. Authorities whose bids were not successful, due to the heavy demand on the funds available, will naturally be disappointed.
Some authorities are keen to develop large capital-intensive projects such as central compositing plants and materials reclamation facilities. Others want to introduce extensive kerbside collection schemes. If we had given approvals to many such schemes, we would have had very few resources left for other authorities. We have generally not been able to give approvals to schemes of this sort except where they are being partly funded from authorities' own capital contributions or by the private sector or where they continue a programme which we have funded in previous years.
The following authorities have been issued supplemen-tary credit approvals for recycling for 1993–94:
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Authority Allocation £000 London Boroughs Barnet 200 Bromley 13.5 Croydon 155 Ealing 1.175 Enfield 50 Hackney 170 Haringey 20 Hillingdon 5 Kingston upon Thames 48 Lambeth 112.25 Merton 97 Newham 100 Redbridge 168 Richmond 70 Southwark 30 Sutton 365 Tower Hamlets 53 Waltham Forest 150 Wandsworth 20 Metropolitan Authorities Barnsley 135 Bolton 75 Bury 30 Calderdale 30 Doncaster 16 Dudley 100 Gateshead 35.5 Kirklees 35 Knowsley 110 Leeds 1,410 Liverpool 270 Newcastle upon Tyne 600 Oldham 98 Rochdale 36 Rotherham 19 St. Helens 7.7 Sandwell 20 South Tyneside 7 Stockport 55.575 Wakefield 340 West Yorkshire Waste Management 1,137 Wirral 24 Wolverhampton 53 County Councils Cambridgeshire 240 Cheshire 20 Cornwall 40 Cumbria 105 Devon 240 Durham 50 Hampshire 517 Hereford and Worcester 11 Hertfordshire 20 288W
Authority Allocation £000 Leicestershire 106 Lincolnshire 175 Northumberland 7 North Yorkshire 76.5 Nottinghamshire 175 Oxfordshire 150 Somerset 78.5 Suffolk 48 Wiltshire 20 District Councils Adur 40 Allerdale 75 Alnwick 33 Amber Valley 20 Bassetlaw 8 Bath 20.4 Beverley 20 Blaby 40 Bournemouth 29 Brighton 60 Bristol 248.75 Broxbourne 105 Browtowe 77 Burnley 45 Carlisle 20 Chelmsford 20 Cheltenham 60 Cherwell 15 Chester 200 Chesterfield 28 Chiltern 50 Copeland 48 Craven 50 Darlington 6 Derby 70 Derbyshire Dales 20.75 Easington 7.8 East Dorset 15 East Hertfordshire 42 Eden 13 Ellesmere Port and Neston 10 Gedling 13 Great Grimsby 70 Guildford 60 Harborough 30 Harlow 17 Hartlepool 150 Hastings 50 Havant 17.5 Hinckley and Bosworth 20 Hull 175 Hyndburn 30 Kerrier 125 Lancaster 20 Lanbaugh on Tees 64 Leicester 90 Melton 40 Mid Bedfordshire 35 Mid Suffolk 60.5 Middlesborough 23 Milton Keynes 1,400 Newark and Sherwood 50 North Dorset 25 North Hertfordshire 12 Norwich 20 Nottingham 71.8 Nuneaton and Bedworth 37 Oswestry 65 Oxford 205 Pendle 15 Peterborough 12.35 Plymouth 160 Poole 37.5 Portsmouth 10 Preston 10 Reading 15
Authority Allocation £000 Ribble Valley 7 Rochester upon Medway 145 Rother 40 Rushmoor 70 Scarborough 25 Selby 30 Shrewsbury and Atcham 50 South Derbyshire 50 South Herefordshire 20 South Lakeland 28.75 South Norfolk 50 South Northamptonshire 75 South Somerset 100 St. Albans 70 St. Edmundsbury 26.5 Stockton on Tees 96.5 Surrey Heath 42 Tendring 4 Test Valley 91.5 Tewkesbury 30 Vale of White Horse 20 Watford 30 Waverley 30 Wealdon 100 Welwyn Hatfield 40 West Devon 75 West Dorset 20 West Wiltshire 116 Winchester 26 Woking 33.7 Wokingham 40 Woodspring 10 Wrekin 90 Wychavon 15 Wycombe 20