§ Mr. HammondTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what measures she plans to take to ensure that the Sustainability Fund is used to deliver environmental improvements in localities where the extractive activities incurring the aggregates levy occur. [30167]
§ Mr. MeacherThe Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund will be distributed through the Countryside Agency, English Heritage, English Nature, WRAP, DTI's Construction Innovation and Research Management Programme, ODPM's Planning Research and Clean Up programmes and DfT's Freight Facilities Grant.
Of the total £58.6 million available in England over the next two years, £29.5 million has been allocated to projects designed to reduce the local effects of aggregates extraction, and £1.6 million to a local authority pilot project run by Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Somerset County Councils.