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Local Government: Standards

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 8 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what percentage public satisfaction rate with (a) household waste collections and (b) local government as a whole was recorded by the (i) Best Value Survey and (ii) Place Survey in each relevant year since 1997. (284044)

The following tables provide the percentage public satisfaction rate with (a) household waste collections and (b) local government as a whole recorded by the BVPI Survey and Place Survey in each relevant year since 1997.

BVPI Survey

Percentage satisfied with the waste collection service overall (BV90a)

Percentage satisfied with the way the authority runs things (BV3)

2000-01

86

65

2003-04

84

55

2006-07

79

54

Place Survey

Percentage satisfied with refuse collection

Percentage satisfied with how the council runs things

2008

78

45

Published results from the BVPI surveys are not directly comparable with the results from the Place Survey. The published BVPI national results are averages based on each council’s results. The published Place Survey results are weighted totals for all respondents in England.

The requested information was collected by the BVPI surveys in 2000-01, 2003-04, and 2006-07. The results have been published in a report by Communities and Local Government which is available to download via the following website address:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/bestvalueuser

Tables 2, 3 and 6 contain the requested information.

Similar information was collected by the Place Survey in 2008. The results have been published in a statistics release by Communities and Local Government which is available to download via the following website address:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/placesurvey2008

The requested information can be found on pages 4 and 5.