To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been paid to local authorities to fund their additional responsibilities for recycling televisions and monitors containing cathode ray tubes; what estimate she has made of the annual amount required to fund this recycling; and what proportion of the total increase of costs to local authorities the extra funding represents. (103124)

I have been asked to reply.

The English local authorities received an interim payment is £12.269 million as part of the Local Government Settlement for 2006-07 to cover the treatment of separately collected CRTs and fluorescent tubes from 13 August 2005 to 1 June 2006, and ODS equipment from 1 April 2006 until 1 June 2006. They have been asked to provide details of what further costs are being incurred to allow us to make a reasonable assessment of what further funding is requireduntil producers become responsible for these costs under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations, which we expect to lay before the House shortly.