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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding her Department has allocated to the Environment Agency for the development and delivery of training to local authority staff working on land affected by contamination in each year since Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 was brought into effect; how much has been allocated to the Environment Agency for this purpose in 2005-06; what output her Department agreed with the Agency; and what has been delivered to date. [224097] Mr. Morley: From the grant-in-aid from my Department for its activities the Environment Agency spent £150,000 and £108,000 in 2003-04 and 2004-05 respectively to develop and deliver training events with places for local authority staff, with supporting materials, in connection with Part IIA (contaminated land). Specific costs for earlier years are not readily available but are of similar order of magnitude to 2003-04. The Agency has not currently allocated any sums for such training in 2005-06. Training events in 2004-05 covered "Model Procedures" (Contaminated Land Report 11, published in October 2004), "Site investigation for the regulation of contaminated land" (nine events), "Part IIA Documentation" (four events), and "Evaluating Human Health Risk Assessments" (one event).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1646-7W;432 c1642W; 224097

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Contamination Finance Land Environment protection Grants Environment Agency Local government Staff Training

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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