HC Deb 12 June 1997 vol 295 cc519-20W
Ms Ellman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what financial support he is giving in the current year to English local authorities and to the Environment Agency to meet capital costs of site investigation and remediation of contaminated land. [3183]

Angela Eagle

The Department of the Environment's Contaminated Land Supplementary Credit Approval programme, which has a budget of £14 million in the current financial year, provides support for capital costs incurred by English local authorities where they are responsible for the investigation or remediation of contaminated land. The programme also is able to provide support, in the form of additional grant-in-aid, to the Environment Agency where it is carrying out works to deal with water pollution from contaminated land.

The programme is aimed at tackling problems on sites owned by local authorities or those where authorities or the Environment Agency have responsibility to take action and cannot recover their costs from third parties. The Department operates an assessment and prioritisation procedure to ensure that the available funding goes to projects representing the greatest threat to health or the environment.

Some authorities have already been notified of support, where this is to meet on-going contractual commitments for projects funded in previous years. The Department of the Environment has today written to local authorities with successful bids for new projects and to the Environment Agency, notifying them of the financial allocations which are being made.

The following table sets out the allocations which have been made for the current financial year.

Local Authority Number of sites Total allocation (£)
Bassetlaw DC 1 120,000
Birmingham City 2 35,000
Blackburn and Darwen BC 2 20,000
Blackpool BC 1 1,000
Bradford MBC 1 30,000
Brighton and Hove C 1 30,000
Bury MBC 1 492,000
Cambridgeshire CC 2 89,000
Cheltenham BC 1 293,000
Cheshire CC 2 170,000
Chorley BC 3 22,000
Cornwall CC 2 42,000
Croydon LB 2 157,000
Cumbria CC 2 75,000
Darlington BC 1 279,000
Devon CC 2 445,000
Dudley MBC 4 193,000
Essex CC 2 410,000
Gateshead MBC 4 765,000
Greater Manchester WDA 1 99,000
Guildford BC 2 147,000
Hampshire CC 2 408,000
Hartlepool BC 1 9,000
Hereford and Worcester CC 2 91,000
Hounslow LB 5 313,000
Knowsley MBC 1 171,000
Leicester City 5 582,000
Leicestershire CC 1 880,000
Merseyside WDA 3 510,000
Middlesbrough BC 1 250,000
Local Authority Number of sites Total allocation (£)
Newcastle City 1 56,000
Norfolk CC 2 188,000
Northamptonshire CC 2 675,000
North East Lincolnshire C 1 136,000
North Lincolnshire C 1 770,000
Northumberland CC 2 12,000
Norwich City 1 1,789,000
Nuneaton and Bedworth 3 90,000
Oldham MBC 1 10,000
Oxford City 1 1,271,000
Oxfordshire CC 1 5,000
Portsmouth City 4 163,000
Redbridge LB 1 22,000
Rotherham MBC 3 348,000
St. Helens MBC 1 23,000
Sandwell MBC 20 277,000
Sheffield City 1 559,000
Solihull MBC 1 535,000
Stafford BC 1 25,000
Stockton-on-Tees BC 1 12,000
Surrey CC 6 1,278,000
Tameside MBC 1 67,000
Three Rivers DC 1 4,000
Trafford MBC 3 77,000
Walsall MBC 3 205,000
Warwickshire CC 1 450,000
West Yorkshire WDA 6 651,000
Weymouth and Portland BC 1 750,000
Worcester City 1 26,000
Environment Agency 6 500,000

Note:

Total allocations include an over-programming margin against the total budget to allow for slippage in expenditure on individual projects.

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