Waste Management

Gregory Barker

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the capital expenditure cost of achieving a 10 per cent. increase in recycling performance was for the private finance initiative waste contracts let to date. (104801)

The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what private finance initiative schemes his Department is involved in relating to local authority waste collection and disposal. (104106)

To date, 21 waste projects have been approved and supported with private finance initiative (PFI) credits by this Department. Nine of these are operational, 11 of the others are currently in procurement and one project has been terminated. The total PFI credits committed to the 21 projects amounts to £933.84 million.

The following table shows the projects that have already been awarded PFI credits, those that have been approved, and those that are in the procurement stages.

Project (authority)	Contract signature/approval date	PFI credits (£ million)	Municipal solid waste arisings (tonnes)
Isle of Wight	Signed 1997-98	13	77,909
Hereford and Worcester	Signed 1998-99	57.4	397,862
Kirklees	Signed 1997-98	33.9	244,031
South Gloucestershire	Signed 2000-01	34.3	⁶140,000
Surrey	Signed 1999	85.5	591,359
Central Berkshire	Signed 2006-07	37	238,812
ELWA	Signed 2002-03	47	546,592
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove	Signed 2002-03	49	379,366
Gloucestershire (terminated)	Approved January 2003	31.105	¹292,000
Leicester	Signed 2004	30.84	146,218
West Sussex	Signed 2003-04	25	463,650
West Berkshire²	Approved June 2003	28.49	83,643
Cornwall³	Signed 2006-07	45	285,315
Cheshire County Council	Approved May 2006	40	433,102
Nottinghamshire⁴	Signed 2006-07	38.31	468,678
Lancashire	Approved October 2003	90	667,479
Northumberland⁵	Approved April 2004	40.8	⁶175,000
Shropshire	Approved September 2004	35.8	⁶188,000
Wakefield MDC	Approved December 2004	33	⁶200,000
Manchester WDA	Approved January 2005	100	⁶1,483,000
LB of Southwark	Approved January 2005	34.5	⁶135,000
Cambridgeshire CC	Approved January 2005	35	⁶280,000
¹ Includes additional £5 million approved in December 2004 ² Includes additional £4.75 million approved in December 2004 ³ Includes additional £4.9 million approved in February 2004 and additional £15.1 million approved in 2006 ⁴ Includes additional £6.38million approved in December 2005 ⁵ Includes additional £6.8million approved in October 2006 ⁶ Figures are for 2003-04. The other municipal solid waste arisings are for 2001-02

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the estimated average cost per bulb is of the disposal of (a) an incandescent light bulb and (b) an energy efficient light bulb for the purposes of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive. (107001)

I have been asked to reply.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given today to PQ No. 106739.

Volume 454: debated on Wednesday 6 December 2006