HC Deb 10 May 2004 vol 421 cc19-21W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much Government funding was available in each of the past three years to Government programmes(a) to stop people littering and polluting, (b) to promote energy efficiency and (c) to cut traffic pollution. [168808]

Alun Michael

(a) Defra funding is provided to ENCAMS (formerly Tidy Britain Group) annually. Funding over the last three years is as follows:

£
2001–02 3,762,000
2002–03 4,597,0001
2003–04 3,574,000

This funding supports ENCAMS work on a range of local environmental quality issues, including programmes to discourage littering. In addition ENCAMS is able to undertake additional work funded by or undertaken jointly with local government or other government departments and agencies.

(b) Defra currently provides grants to aid energy efficiency through four main routes.

  1. 1. The Carbon Trust—to support and promote energy efficiency and low carbon innovation for business and public sector
  2. 2. The Energy Saving Trust—to support and promote energy efficiency in the domestic sector.
  3. 3. The Community Energy programme—capital and development funding to refurbish existing and install new community heating schemes.
  4. 4. The Warm Front programme—to provide energy efficiency measures to the vulnerable.
1Defra allocated an additional 1m to local authorities through ENCAMS for the Local Environmental Quality Pathfinder Programme that forged partnerships between local authorities and the local community. Some of the projects developed reduced fast food litter, railway land litter and schools litter.

The funding made available by Defra and its predecessors to support and promote efficiency measures in the last three years (including the Energy Saving Trust and the Carbon Trust) is of the scale set out as follows:

£
2001–02 256,000,000
2002–03 225,000,000
2003–04 1243,000,000
1Budget

(c) Government currently provides funding through the Transport Energy Powershift and CleanUp programmes, which are administered by the Energy Saving Trust. Powershift provides grants towards the purchase of cleaner and more efficient alternatively fuelled vehicles e.g. LPG, natural gas and hybrid vehicles. CleanUp provides grants towards the cost of purchasing exhaust treatment systems which reduce NOx and Particulate emissions. Both programmes contribute to reducing traffic pollution and were allocated the following Government funding.

Clean Up £
2001–02 7,400,000
2002–03 8,300,000
2003–04 12,900,000
Powershift £
2001–02 5,400,000
2002–03 2,200,000
2003–04 7,000,000
Note:
These figures refer to grant spend and do not include management and Administration costs.