§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what performance targets have been set for Encams for waste awareness as a condition of funding. [155763]
§ Mr. MeacherEncams' flagship waste awareness initiative is the Waste Theme Month that it co-ordinates each October. This year DETR grant of £30,000 funded its entire costs: promotional activity that included leaflets, newspapers, a theme month pack and a national seminar, all of which Encams evaluated through a questionnaire.
638WThe programme met all three targets set for it in the 2000–01 Corporate Plan agreed with DETR Ministers, which were:
- (i) to increase the action generated by 10 per cent. on that for the previous year;
- (ii) to distribute information to 500 organisations; and
- (iii) to have 25 per cent. of evaluation questionnaires returned.
Waste and litter awareness and action feature across a range of Encams' grant funded activities, notably the Just Bin It campaign (formerly called National Spring Clean), and People and Places programme and the Seaside Awards. We are currently negotiating a Corporate Plan with Encams Ltd. which will set out performance targets for all its 2001–02 grant-aided work, including work to promote waste awareness. When we agree this Plan later in the year I will deposit a copy in the Libraries of the House.