To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 21 January 2008, Official Report, column1498W, on Waste Information Services Ltd: finance, for what purpose WRAP—the Waste and Resources Action Programme—made payments to Waste Information Services Ltd; and what services were provided by that company. (178690)

Waste Information Services Ltd. has been engaged by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) on two occasions in the last three years to offer specialist advice on the collection of batteries for recycling.