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Private Finance Initiative (Waste Projects)

Volume 407: debated on Tuesday 17 June 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the allocation of PFI credits for waste projects which has occurred, indicating in each case how much is intended for incineration related purposes. [114266]

The following table sets out the amount of PFI credits that have been allocated to local authority waste projects. The list includes cases that have been approved on the basis of final business cases—where preferred bidders have been selected and contracts have

AuthorityFinancial year project signedApproval stagePFI credit allocation (£ million)Total municipal waste dealt with (Tonnes per annuum)Incineration capacity included in project (Tonnes per annum)
Isle of Wight11997–98FBC1337,0000
Herefordshire and Worcestershire21998–99FBC57347,00094,000
Kirklees31998–99FBC33.9233,500123,000
Surrey41999–2000FBC85.5555,000400,000
South Gloucestershire52000–01FBC34.3185,00055,000
ELWA62002–03FBC47530,0000
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove62002–03FBC49445,000225,000
Leicester City62003–04FBC30.8140,0000
Central Berkshire7n/aOBC37464,0000
West Sussex8n/aOBC25414,0000
Gloucestershire7n/aOBC25.105223,4750
1 Latest (2002) data
2 Final stage projections
3 Latest 2002–03 estimates
4 Incineration figures based on capacity—not necessarily all for municipal waste
5 Final stage projections based on contract end estimates
6 Final stage data
7 Outline stage data
8 Outline stage data. Civic Amenity Site solution