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Waste Disposal: Finance

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what proportion of the budget of each local authority was spent on the disposal of household and commercial rubbish in each of the last 10 years. (220838)

I have placed in the Library of the House a table showing the proportions of revenue expenditure spent on waste disposal by each local authority in England in the last nine years.

Aggregate information for England is published in editions of Local Government Financial Statistics and the information is drawn from the Communities and Local Government revenue outturn (RO) returns.

Revenue expenditure is defined as the expenditure funded from aggregate external finance (AEF), council tax and authorities' reserves. AEF is central Government revenue funding that comprises formula grant (revenue support grant, redistributed non-domestic rates and police grant) and specific grants inside AEF, i.e. revenue grants paid for council's core services.

Figures for 1997-98 have not been included due to complexities arising from the extensive local government reorganisation which took place around that time.

Comparisons across years may not be valid due to changing local authority responsibilities.