Waste Management: Finance
(asked on 21st October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer 8 October to Question 293610, what specific programmes and deliverables to tackle waste and promote recycling are included under which headings; and if she will publish the (a) Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit, (b) Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit and (c) Annually Managed Expenditure funding allocated to each of those programmes for 2019-20.
Please see the table below that sets out 2019-20 planned funding and key deliverables for specific programmes. Negative figures show overall planned savings (this is where a small adjustment is needed to ensure the budget as a whole balances at the beginning of the financial year, these savings (negative balances) will be off-set against a positive budget later in the year when savings/priorities are identified) or income.
2019-20 | ||||
Programme and key deliverables | Spend Type | Sub-Programme | Resource (£'000) | Capital (£'000) |
Natural environment and atmosphere improvement programmes Deliverables: Deliver commitments in the Nitrogen Dioxide Air Quality Plan, the wider Clean Air Strategy and the National Air Pollution Control Programme to improve how information on air quality is provided, including better access to air quality forecasts and health advice. Monitor air quality through the UK’s air quality network and reduce emissions from permitted sites through the Industrial Emissions and Medium Combustion Plant Directives. | Departmental Expenditure Limit | Air Quality & Industrial Emissions | 86,389 | -222 |
Waste Deliverables: Show leadership on tackling plastic pollution, with the aim to clean up the country and achieve a substantial reduction in litter. Take forward measures to reform Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging, and ensure consistent and frequent collections for household rubbish and recycling. Implement new regulations to tackle waste crime, stop illegal waste activities and reduce illegal waste sites and marine plastic pollution through domestic, regional and global action. | Departmental Expenditure Limit | Waste and recycling | 28,602 | 10,369 |
Food, sustainable and competitive farming Deliverables: Making the UK a great place to start, thrive and grow as a farming or food and drink business, and help our businesses to deliver high quality products to more consumer markets across the globe. Continued delivery of the Rural Development Programme for England, seeking to improve environmental quality, support farm productivity improvements and drive rural economic growth. This programme of work is underpinned by science and evidence which delivers tactical, strategic and applied R&D, statistical and economic analysis and behavioural insights. | Departmental Expenditure Limit | Future farming and land use | 67,462 | 0 |
Food chain programme | 17,030 | 4,490 |