Environmental Protection (Hansard, 18 May 2004)

HC Deb 18 May 2004 vol 421 c827W 827W

§ 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 the Tidy Britain campaign. [168809]

§ Alun Michael
Government funding was provided to Encams (formerly Tidy Britain Group) as follows:

Thousand

2001–02 3,762

2002–03 ¹4,597

2003–04 3,574

¹ Defra allocated an additional 1 million 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.

	Thousand
2001–02	3,762
2002–03	¹4,597
2003–04	3,574
¹ Defra allocated an additional 1 million 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.