HL Deb 17 March 1997 vol 579 cc50-1WA
Lord Brougham and Vaux

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What arrangements have been made for providing financial support to local authorities' efforts to encourage home composting.

The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Earl Ferrers)

As part of my Department's public expenditure plans for 1997–98, £2.193 million was set aside for Supplementary Credit Approvals to support the provision by local authorities of home composting facilities. Local authorities were invited to bid for those resources, setting out their plans for encouraging household involvement. We received a total of 137 bids. I have decided provisionally to allocate resources as set out in the list below.

Local authority Allocation £000s
Umbrella bids by Waste Disposal Authorities on behalf of a number of Waste Collection Authorities
Cambridgeshire 50.00
Essex 275.00
Nottinghamshire 275.00
Individual bids by Waste Collection Authorities
Amber Valley 50.00
Bath & North East Somerset 30.00
Birmingham 50.00
Blackburn 25.00
Bradford 41.47
Brent 37.20
Bromley 25.00
Carlisle 20.00
Carrick 25.00
Chelmsford 20.00
Cherwell 23.00
Chester 24.00
Chesterfield 7.00
Colchester 44.50
Doncaster 25.00
Easington 23.40
East Hertfordshire 10.00
Gateshead 36.00
Gloucester 48.00
Greenwich 15.00
Guildford 25.00
Hackney 16.00
Harrow 20.00
Hounslow 5.00
Local authority Allocation £000s
Hyndburn 10.00
Kirklees 16.00
Knowsley 24.13
Lancaster 5.00
Leeds 24.00
Liverpool 50.00
Manchester 24.00
Melton 8.20
Mid Devon 20.00
Newcastle Upon Tyne 15.00
North Kesteven 40.00
North Somerset 13.55
Nuneaton & Bedworth 15.00
Oadby & Wigston 26.00
Oldham 26.25
Oxford 20.00
Peterborough 15.00
Portsmouth 13.00
Redbridge 50.00
Restormel 50.00
St. Albans 25.00
Sedgemoor 32.08
Slough 37.50
South Bedfordshire 10.00
South Gloucestershire 27.35
South Lakeland 50.00
Southwark 6.00
Stafford 30.00
Stockport 50.00
Tameside 25.00
Teignbridge 50.00
West Wiltshire 50.00
Woking 39.38
York 50.00
Total SCA allocation 2,193.00