To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 19 January 2010, Official Report, column 290W, on local government: cost effectiveness, what proportion of the estimated £550 million of savings he expects to result from efficiencies made in respect of waste collection and disposal. (317811)

The pre-Budget report sets out a number of areas where local government will be able to find significant efficiencies by 2012-13, including waste collection and disposal. It is for individual local authorities to make efficiencies based on local priorities and use of resources in these and other services.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield of 19 January 2010, Official Report, column 290W, on local government: cost effectiveness, whether the proposed £800 million savings by 2012-13 will include efficiency savings made in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. (317878)

The pre-Budget report sets out a number of areas where local government will be able to find £800 million per year efficiency savings by 2012-13. These are savings to be delivered by 2012-13 against a baseline year of 2010-11.