To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether his Department’s research project WR0105 “Project REDUCE monitoring and evaluation—developing tools to measure waste prevention” has been completed; and what funding the EU INTERREG programme provided for the project. (269891)

Output from the project (WR0105) “Project REDUCE Monitoring and Evaluation: Developing Tools to Measure Waste Prevention” has been incorporated into the review study referred to in the response to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) on 14 October 2008, Official Report, column 1050W, on Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal, and will be published at the same time, later in 2009.

No funding from the EU Interreg programme was provided for the project.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which local authorities are participating in the research project, “Understanding waste growth at local authority level” WR0121; and what budget his Department has set for the programme. (269974)

The local authorities providing case study information for “Understanding waste growth at local authority level” (WR0121) are:

Ribble Valley Borough Council,

East Riding of Yorkshire Council,

Hambleton District Council,

Broadland District Council,

Hart District Council,

London Borough of Islington,

South Norfolk District Council,

Hyndburn Borough Council,

Mole Valley District Council,

Milton Keynes Council,

Basildon District Council,

Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council,

Wakefield Council,

Sandwell MBC,

London Borough of Sutton,

Birmingham City Council,

Tonbridge and Mailing Borough Council,

Somerset County Council,

Stirling Council,

Cardiff City Council,

Powys County Council,

Derby City Council,

Rother District Council,

Rhondda Cynon Taf,

Flintshire County Council,

Belfast City Council,

Down District Council; and

West Dunbartonshire Council.

The budget for this project is £90,585 in total (£85,585 from DEFRA and £5,000 from the Welsh Assembly Government).