Waste Improvement Network: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much his Department has given to the Waste Improvement Network in each year since the network's inception; and how much it plans to contribute in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12. (319666)

Communities and Local Government (CLG) and DEFRA have funded the Waste Improvement Network (WIN) as detailed in the table over a five-year period:

	Funding Source	£
2006-07	CLG (through Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships funding - RIEP)	89,700
2007-08	DEFRA (direct grant)	100,000
2008-09	DEFRA (direct grant)	85,000
2009-10	85% DEFRA (direct grant), 15% CLG (through RIEP funding)	100,000
2010-11	85% DEFRA (direct grant), 15% CLG (through RIEP funding)	100,000

No budget has been set for 2011-12.

Volume 506: debated on Tuesday 2 March 2010