§ Mr. Alan KeenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will publish details of his public expenditure plans for his Department's environmental protection programmes. [52015]
§ Mr. MeacherYes. I am today publishing details of the provision for my environmental protection programmes, as agreed in the context of the Comprehensive Spending Review. In addition to the extra £174 million for energy efficiency announced by my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 14 July 1998,Official Report, columns 187–211, provision for my other environmental protection programmes is being increased by £80 million over the next three years.
£150 million of the new energy efficiency money is added to the existing £75 million a year expenditure on the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme creating a new expanded fuel poverty programme to help another 1,000,000 vulnerable households whose homes cannot be heated to the minimum level for good health.
DETR environmental protection programmes—actual and planned resource provision 1998–99 to 2001–02 £ million Programmes Actual provision 1998–99 Planned provision 1999–2000 Planned provision 2000–01 Planned provision 2001–02 Energy Efficiency Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 75.1 75.1 125.1 175.1 Energy Efficiency Best Practice 15.1 16.7 19.8 22.5 Energy Savings Trust 19.0 22.0 25.0 25.0 Sub-total Energy Efficiency 109.2 113.8 169.9 222.6 Contaminated Land Implementation of S57 by Local Authorities — 14.0 18.0 18.0 Capital Funding for Local Authorities 14.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 Sub-total Contaminated Land 14.0 29.0 33.0 33.0 Environment Agency 100.9 106.1 106.0 103.4 Small Programmes Promoting Environmental Improvement (national)1 15.6 18.5 18.5 18.5 Programmes Promoting environmental improvement through international co-operation2 10.6 12.9 12.9 12.9 Environmental Research 28.3 29.8 29.8 29.8 Other environmental monitoring3 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.8 Grants towards mains water supply and sewerage in rural areas etc. 6.2 6.2 5.5 5.4 Air quality, smoke control and other capital programmes4 5.9 4.6 3.1 3.1 Pneumoconiosis Compensation grant5 6.9 7.7 7.7 7.7 1Includes: Environmental Technology Best Practice, Tidy Britain, Going for Green, Environmental Action Fund, UKEB, Environmental Publicity and Mersey Basin Foundation 2Includes: Darwin, UNEP, East European Environmental know-how fund, Chernobyl Sarcophagus and other international subscriptions for 2000/1 and beyond. For 1998/99 excludes provision for Know-How and Chernobyl following transfers 3Includes: Radon Measurement, NETCEN and Met Office Emergency Pollution Response (part of the Radio-Active incident monitoring Network (RIMNET) 4Includes: Provision for supplementary credit approvals for Air Quality and Smoke Control, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority and the Isles' of Scilly 5Pneumoconiosis compensation grant is administered by the Health and Safety Executive