§ Mr. TrendTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library542W Support for the Energy Saving Trust is increased from £19 million this year, to £22 million for 1999–2000, and to £25 million for each of the later years. An extra £1.5 million is provided for Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme in 1999–2000 and further increases are planned to provide, among other things, new programmes of advice to businesses to help improve energy efficiency.
The extra £80 million for environmental protection will enable me to:
- (a) make £50 million available to local authorities to support implementation of the new provisions for contaminated land in Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (inserted by Section 57 of the Environment Act 1995), which we intend to bring into force in July 1999. The funds will support local authorities in developing inspection strategies, carrying out investigations of individual sites and taking forward necessary enforcement action; and
- (b) increase grant to the Environment Agency by a total of £13 million over three years to help implement new European Directives, and to support the Agency's role in the new contaminated land regime; and
- (c) increase funding for environmental research, for a number of small programmes which promote environmental improvements and for pneumoconiosis compensation grant.
Details are set out in the table.
a list of awards granted by the European Commission Office in London to organisations promoting the concept of Europe. [49644]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonWe are not aware of any awards by the European Commission Office in London to organisations promoting the concept of Europe. The 543W relevant budget lines—established by the Council and the European Parliament—are administered by the Commission headquarters in Brussels.