Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) with reference to the answers to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 30 April 2008, Official Report, column 467W, and to the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) of 9 October 2008, Official Report, column 754W, on waste management: domestic wastes, if he will publish an updated table of the local authorities which operate residual household waste collections with a frequency of less than once a week, including those operating or planning to operate pilot schemes with that frequency; (270136)

(2) which local authorities operate residual household waste collections with a frequency of less than once a week, including those operating or planning to operate pilot schemes with that frequency.

The Waste and Resources Action programme has provided the following list of local authorities operating residual household waste collections with a frequency of less than once a week, including pilot schemes. This represents WRAP'S best understanding but the situation can change rapidly.

Local authority

Alnwick District Council

Amber Valley Borough Council

Ashfield District Council

Babergh District Council

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council

Bassetlaw District Council

Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council

Blackpool Borough Council

Blyth Valley Borough Council

Boston Borough Council

Bracknell Forest Borough Council

Braintree District Council

Breckland District Council

Bridgnorth District Council

Bristol City Council

Broadland District Council

Bromsgrove District Council

Broxtowe Borough Council

Burnley Borough Council

Cambridge City Council

Cannock Chase District Council

Canterbury City Council

Carlisle City Council

Castle Morpeth Borough Council

Charnwood Borough Council

Cherwell District Council

Chesterfield Borough Council

Chichester District Council

Chiltern District Council

Chorley Borough Council

Copeland Borough Council

Corby Borough Council

Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council

Dacorum Borough Council

Daventry District Council

Derby City Council

Derwentside District Council

Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

East Hampshire District Council

East Lindsey District Council

Eastleigh Borough Council

Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council

Epping Forest District Council

Erewash Borough Council

Exeter City Council

Fareham Borough Council

Fenland District Council

Forest Heath District Council

Fylde Borough Council

Gedling Borough Council

Gosport Borough Council

Great Yarmouth Borough Council

Guildford Borough Council

Hambleton District Council

Harborough District Council

Harrow London Borough Council

Hart District Council

Hartlepool Borough Council

Hastings Borough Council

Havant Borough Council

Hertsmere Borough Council

High Peak Borough Council

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council

Huntingdonshire District Council

Hyndburn Borough Council

Ipswich Borough Council

Kennet District Council

Kettering Borough Council

Kirklees Metropolitan Council

Lancaster City Council

Lichfield District Council

Lincoln City Council

London Borough of Bexley

Macclesfield Borough Council

Mansfield District Council

Melton Borough Council

Mendip District Council

Mid Bedfordshire District Council

Mid Devon District Council

Mid Suffolk District Council

Mid Sussex District Council

Mole Valley District Council

Newark and Sherwood District Council

North Devon District Council

North East Derbyshire District Council

North Hertfordshire District Council

North Kesteven District Council

North Lincolnshire Council

North Norfolk District Council

North Shropshire District Council

North West Leicestershire District Council

Northampton Borough Council

Norwich City Council

Nottingham City Council

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Oswestry Borough Council

Oxford City Council

Pendle Borough Council

Peterborough City Council

Preston City Council

Purbeck District Council

Reading Borough Council

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council

Redditch Borough Council

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Rochford District Council

Rossendale Borough Council

Rother District Council

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Rushcliffe Borough Council

Rushmoor Borough Council

Ryedale District Council

Scarborough Borough Council

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council

Shepway District Council

Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council

South Bedfordshire District Council

South Buckinghamshire District Council

South Cambridgeshire District Council

South Derbyshire District Council

South Gloucestershire Council

South Hams District Council

South Kesteven District Council

South Lakeland District Council

South Norfolk District Council

South Northamptonshire Council

South Ribble Borough Council

South Shropshire District Council

South Somerset District Council

South Staffordshire District Council

Spelthorne Borough Council

St. Edmundsbury Borough Council

Stafford Borough Council

Staffordshire Moorlands District Council

Suffolk Coastal District Council

Swale Borough Council

Swindon Borough Council

Tamworth Borough Council

Taunton Deane Borough Council

Teignbridge District Council

Telford and Wrekin Borough Council

Test Valley Borough Council

Thanet District Council

Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council

Torbay Council

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

Tynedale District Council

Uttlesford District Council

Vale Royal Borough Council

Wakefield City Council

Wansbeck District Council

Warwick District Council

Waveney District Council

Waverley Borough Council

Wealden District Council

Wellingborough Borough Council

West Lancashire District Council

West Wiltshire District Council

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council

Winchester City Council

Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

Woking Borough Council

Worcester City Council

Wycombe District Council

Wyre Borough Council

Wyre Forest District Council

York City Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 12 March 2009, Official Report, column 679W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, if he will place in the Library a copy of the WR1204 research report on completion. (275776)

A copy of the WR1204 research report will be placed in the Library once it is published later this year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer of 11 March 2008, Official Report, column 222W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, whether any projects involved helping local authorities with introducing or operating alternate weekly collections. (275783)

DEFRA provided funding directly to authorities, through the local authority support unit (LASU), to:

resource technical support for waste compositional analysis;

develop their wastes strategies; and

formulate their procurement and planning approach.

We did not fund any option specifically to deliver any particular collection approach. However, authorities may have explored the options mentioned as part of those available. All LASU case studies are available on the Waste Information Network website.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 841W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, whether (a) the Waste Improvement Network and (b) the Waste and Resources Action programme have made estimates of the average cost per household to local waste collection authorities of domestic waste collection with (i) a weekly and (ii) an alternate weekly frequency. (275856)

Neither the Waste Improvement Network not the Waste and Resources Action programme (WRAP) have made any such estimates.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) of 17 March 2009, Official Report, column 1007W, on domestic waste: waste disposal, which of the 10 councils awarded beacon status for best practice in waste collection have (a) weekly and (b) alternate weekly collections. (275858)

Two of the bodies awarded beacon status for waste collection in 2007 are waste partnerships representing a total of 16 authorities. 14 of these have waste collection duties. Therefore, a total of 21 waste collection authorities received beacon status for waste collection. Of these, three now provide weekly collections and 18 provide alternate weekly collections.

Weekly collection

East Cambridgeshire District Council