To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment has been made by (a) the Environment Agency and (b) his Department on the level of burning of domestic waste by households in England. (153976)

No specific assessment has been made by my Department or the Environment Agency on the level of burning of domestic waste by households in England.

Complaints about statutory smoke nuisance from domestic bonfires, or the burning of other materials, are made at the local authority level. Statistics are not held centrally by my Department.

DEFRA carried out research into emissions of dioxins from the burning of domestic waste in 2006. The review recommended that further work should be done to establish what practical measures could be taken to reduce dioxin emissions from bonfires and domestic combustion and, consequently, exposure to dioxins. Further work in estimating dioxin emissions from domestic burning is due to start in October 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what funding the waste and resource action programme provided to each local authority in (a) Wales, (b) Scotland and (c) Northern Ireland in each of the last three years. (153994)

Any funding allocated to local authorities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is a devolved matter for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Executive.