Aggregates Sustainability Levy Fund

Paul Holmes

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much of the Aggregates Sustainability Levy Fund was allocated to each of the fund’s eight national delivery partners in each year since the fund was established. (143551)

I have been asked to reply.

The figures in the following table show the final allocations to the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund’s national delivery partners in England in each of the financial years the fund has been running.

	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Natural England	—	—	—	—	—	5,100,000
English Nature	4,970,000	4,193,000	4,110,000	3,500,000	2,688,000	—
Countryside Agency	5,470,000	4,193,000	2,710,000	2,160,000	2,002,000	—
English Heritage	5,470,000	4,193,000	4,310,000	4,350,000	3,423,000	4,400,000
CEFAS (Marine)	—	—	950,000	1,300,000	910,000	2,500,000
Waste and Resources Action Programme	6,500,000	8,240,000	3,650,000	5,980,000	5,446,000	2,700,000
Minerals Industry Research Organisation	1,800,000	1,627,000	1,490,000	1,650,000	1,155,000	1,500,000
Department for Transport	—	—	400,000	2,200,000	2,849,000	1,400,000
Department of Trade and Industry	700,000	700,000	410,000	—	—	—
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister	1,860,000	1,860,000	1,640,000	1,800,000	1,260,000	—

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much from the Aggregates Levy Fund was allocated to the fund’s objective of (a) minimising the demand for primary aggregates, (b) promoting environmentally friendly aggregates extraction on land, (c) promoting environmentally friendly aggregates extraction in the marine environment, (d) promoting environmentally friendly transport of aggregates, (e) addressing the environmental impacts of past aggregate extraction and (f) compensating local communities for the impacts of aggregates extraction in each year since the fund was established. (143624)

I have been asked to reply.

The Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund’s four objectives are:

1. Minimising the demand for primary aggregates

2. Promoting environmentally friendly extraction and transport

3. Addressing the environmental impacts of past aggregates extraction

4. Compensating local communities for the impacts of aggregates extraction

The fourth objective was added in April 2005.

The figures in the following table show the approximate allocations between the four objectives in each of the financial years the fund has been running.

£
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
First Objective	7,200,000	8,940,000	4,060,000	5,980,000	5,446,000	2,700,000
Second Objective	3,660,000	3,487,000	4,480,000	11,170,000	9,134,000	7,700,000
Third Objective	16,710,000	13,379,000	11,772,000	5,790,000	5,153,000	7,200,000
Fourth Objective	—	—	—	3,810,000	2,797,000	2,797,000

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much from the Aggregates Levy Fund was allocated to local authorities in each year since the fund was established. (143625)

I have been asked to reply.

The figures in the following table show the final allocations to local authorities in each of the financial years the fund has been running.

	£
2002-03	800,000
2003-04	800,000
2004-05	642,000
2005-06	3,810,000
2006-07	2,797,000
2007-08	2,797,000

Volume 461: debated on Thursday 21 June 2007