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Departmental Public Expenditure

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much funding was allocated to the (a) Waste and Resources Action Programme, (b) Carbon Trust, (c) Energy Saving Trust, (d) National Industrial Symbiosis Programme, (e) Envirowise and (f) Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in each year since 1997; and how much he expects each organisation to receive from the public purse in each of the next six years. (257667)

[holding answer 23 February 2009]: The following table details the funding allocated to the (a) Waste and Resources Action programme, (b) Carbon Trust, (c) Energy Saving Trust, (d) National Industrial Symbiosis programme, (e) Envirowise and (f) Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in each year since 1997.

This Department funds the Carbon Trust (CT), the Energy Saving Trust (EST) and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

The CT was established in 2001 and in the past received funding from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). CT figures do not include funding from the devolved administrations.

Previously, the EST received funding from DEFRA, the Department for Transport, BERR (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry) and the Scottish Administration.

The NDA became operational on 1 April 2005. It is funded by a combination of Government funding and commercial income. The funding for the NDA for 2008-09 is expected to be around £3 billion, of which £1.5 billion is Government funding. The total funding for the NDA for the three year spending period to 2010-11 is expected to be around £8 billion, of which £5 billion is Government funding.

The National Industrial Symbiosis programme (NISP) is funded by DEFRA as is Envirowise (which until 2006-07 was jointly funded with BERR) and the Waste and Resources Action programme (WRAP). The allocations for NISP, Envirowise and WRAP do not include funding from the Devolved Administrations. The NISP and WRAP programmes were not operational in the years for which figures have not been provided.

Funding in 2009-10 for some delivery bodies has yet to be confirmed while the funding for all bodies for years beyond that has yet to be determined.

£ million

WRAP

Carbon Trust

EST

NISP

Envirowise

NDA

1997-08

n/a

n/a

2

n/a

7

n/a

1998-09

n/a

n/a

2

n/a

7

n/a

1999-2000

n/a

n/a

19

n/a

6

n/a

2000-01

n/a

n/a

25

n/a

7

n/a

2001-02

9

3

39

n/a

4

n/a

2002-03

21

26

49

n/a

6

n/a

2003-04

24

51

50

n/a

6

n/a

2004-05

56

54

71

n/a

5

n/a

2005-06

72

61

72

3

12

2,420

2006-07

66

82

58

6

16

2,586

2007-08

62

1102

74

10

22

2,593

2008-09

43

90

55

5

9

2,880

2009-10

43

5

9

2,769

1 Includes £14,001,000 of accrued income—i.e. income payable to the Carbon Trust under arrangements for 2007-08, but disbursed in 2008-09 when funds were required.