HC Deb 31 March 1993 vol 222 cc285-8W
Mrs. Peacock

To 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. Maclean

My 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 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:

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
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

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