§ Mr. EtheringtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if support will be given in the current financial year to English local authorities and to the Environment Agency to meet the capital costs of dealing with contaminated land. [42344]
§ Angela EagleThe Department is continuing the Contaminated Land Supplementary Credit Approval programme this financial year with a budget of £15 million. It provides support for English local authorities for the capital costs they incur in dealing with contaminated land. The programme also supports, in the form of additional grant-in-aid, the Environment Agency where it is carrying out works to deal with water pollution caused by contaminated land.
Most authorities with on-going contractual commitments for projects funded in previous years have already received notification that support will be available. The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions has decided many of the bids it has received to date for new projects and has written today to the successful authorities and to the Environment Agency notifying them of the financial allocations which are being made.
The Department is discussing some bids with the authorities concerned and expects to make some further allocations. It will also decide new bids when they are received.
158WThe table sets out the allocations which have been made so far this current financial year.
£ Local authorities Number of sites Total allocation Ashford BC 1 50,000 Bexley LB 1 50,000 Blackburn with Darwen BC 4 115,500 Bury MBC 2 202,631 Calderdale MBC 1 300,000 Cheshire CC 3 23,950 Chorley BC 2 179,000 Colchester BC 1 12,125 Cornwall CC 1 18,000 Croydon LB 5 112,000 Cumbria CC 1 536,408 Darlington 1 250,000 Devon CC 5 368,300 Dudley MBC 1 79,200 Durham CC 1 10,000 East Sussex CC 1 40,000 Essex CC 2 175,000 Greenwich LB 1 10,000 Guildford BC 4 31,940 Hampshire CC 2 567,000 Harrogate BC 1 19,000 Havering LB 1 28,000 Herefordshire C 1 25,000 Hounslow LB 8 182,523 Isle of Wight C 1 10,000 Kent CC 1 60,000 Knowsley MBC 1 114,000 Lancashire CC 1 106,000 Leicester City 5 535,000 Leicestershire CC 2 33,100 Maidstone BC 1 30,000 Merseyside WDA 3 33,000 Middlesbrough BC 1 464,000 Newcastle City 3 793,550 Newham LB 1 23,200 Norfolk CC 1 60,000 Northamptonshire CC 2 520,000 North East Lincolnshire C 1 354,450 North Lincolnshire C 1 185,000 Norwich City 1 73,400 Nottingham City 1 57,000 Nottinghamshire CC 1 9,000 Nuneaton and Bedworth BC 5 115,000 Oldham MBC 1 70,000 Oxford City 1 26,000 Oxfordshire CC 1 15,000 Plymouth City 2 153,800 Portsmouth City 6 198,000 Preston BC 1 316,750 Redbridge LB 1 10,500 Rotherham MBC 3 77,800 Sandwell MBC 16 524,572 Sheffield City 1 35,530 Shropshire CC 1 44,000 Solihull MBC 1 522,876 South Holland DC 1 39,500 Staffordshire CC 1 55,500 Surrey CC 6 32,500 Tameside MBC 2 35,000 Trafford MBC 6 677,750 Wakefield MDC 1 15,000 Warrington BC 1 16,550 Warwickshire CC 1 377,000 Worcestershire CC 1 42,930 Environment Agency 9 1,294,650