The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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
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I refer the hon. Member to the answer given today to PQ No. 106739.