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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the national environment campaigns promoted by the Government since 1997; and what the (a) resource costs, (b) capital expenditure costs and (c) staffing costs were of each at today's prices. [208189] Alun Michael: The information is as follows. Waste and resources action programme1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 Expenditure Expenditure at 2004-05 prices 1997-98 -- -- 1998-99 -- -- 1999-2000 -- -- 2000-01 -- -- 2001-02 -- -- 2002-03 -- -- 2003-04 2517 528 2004-05 3, 4, 55,431 54 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is funded by Defra, the Devolved Administrations, and currently the DTI. WRAP was formed in 2000 and began work 2001. Figures supplied by WRAP. 2 Staff numbers 2 (rounded estimate), staff cost £55,000. 3 Staff numbers 4.5, staff cost £115,000. 4 WRAP have committed a total of 10 million to a national campaign"Recycle Now" over the three year period 2003-06. 5 Full year estimate. ENCAMS _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 Expenditure Expenditure at 2004-05 prices 1997-98 3,997 4,734 1998-99 3,697 4,256 1999-2000 3,762 4,238 2000-01 3,542 3,944 2001-02 3,762 4,085 2002-03 13.597 3,777 2003-04 3,574 3,650 2004-05 24,542 4,542 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 In addition to this expenditure Defra allocated an additional £1 million to local authorities through ENCAMS for the Local Environmental Quality Pathfinder Programme that forged partnerships between local authorities and the local community. Some of the projects developed reduced fast food litter, railway land litter and schools litter. 2 Encams baseline grant was increased by £1 million in 2004-05, and is being increased by a further £1 million in 2005-06. Government funding is provided to ENCAMS (formerly Tidy Britain Group) annually. This funding supports ENCAMS work on a range of local environmental quality issues, including programmes to discourage littering. Staff and resource figures are not available Carbon Trust _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 Expenditure Expenditure at 2004-05 prices 1997-98 -- -- 1998-99 -- -- 1999-2000 -- -- 2000-01 -- -- 2001-02 -- -- 2002-03 1,2700 735 2003-04 3,300 3,371 2004-05 3,600 3,600 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 The Carbon Trust was formed in 2001-02 but did not begin marketing activity until 2002-03. Figure for 2002-03 is total marketing expenditure. Figures for 2003-04 and 2004-05 represent expenditure on awareness campaigns. 2 Figures for resource breakdown not available as Carbon Trust do not distinguish between these categories in the funding information they provide to Defra. In addition to Government environmental promotions, the Carbon Trust, an independent company funded by Defra, spent the following on marketing campaigns targeted at business and the public sector. Energy Saving Trust _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 Expenditure Expenditure at 2004-05 prices 1997-98 13,31 3 3,924 1998-99 3,532 4,066 1999-2000 3,726 4,198 2000-01 4,208 4,687 2001-02 6,542 7,105 Staff (488) (530) Resource (6,054) (6,575) 2002-03 5,742 6,029 Staff (487) (511) Resource (5,255) (5,519) 2003-04 6,038 6,167 Staff (560) (572) Resource (5,478) (5,595) 2004-05 28,511 8,511 Staff (600) (600) Resource (7,901) (7,901) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Figures for 1997-98 to 2000-01 inclusive show advertising expenditure only and include a small amount of Scottish Executive support. 2 Figure for 2004-05 also includes a separate campaign to promote energy efficiency in the run-up to the start of the Energy Efficiency Commitment for 2005-08. In addition to Government environmental promotions, the Energy Saving Trust, an independent company funded by Defra, spent the following on its "Energy Efficiency" Consumer Marketing Campaign. DETR/Defra:Are you doing you bit? campaign _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 Expenditure Expenditure at 2004-05 prices 1997-98 0 0 1998-99 3,809 4,385 1999-2000 7,666 8,637 2000-01 9,976 11,110 2001-02 525 570 2002-03 10 0 2003-04 0 0 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 This campaign served to raise public awareness and to encourage individual action to help the environment. However, in the absence of an underpinning legal requirement, it was considered to be of lower priority than the Department's other environmental programmes which bodies such as the Energy Savings Trust and NGOs will deliver. Winding down the campaign will help deliver savings of £3.4 million pa from 2005-06 onwards. Staff and resource figures are not available. All expenditure at 2004-05 prices has been calculated using the GDP deflator tables from HM Treasury.Since similar questions were answered there have been changes in accounting practices which have given rise to variations in some of the figures given in this answer.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c928-30W; 208189

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Costs Capital investment Environment protection Publicity Staff

Contains statistics

Yes

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