Written question asked by Ashok Kumar (Labour) on Monday, 6 March 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 8 March 2006. It was answered by Ben Bradshaw (Labour) on Monday, 13 March 2006 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

ENCAMS

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much funding her Department has provided to ENCAMS in each year since 1997.

Answer

Government have provided ENCAMS with funding since 1997 as detailed in the following table.

	£000
1997–98	3,997
1998–99	3,697
1999–2000	3,762
2000–01	3,542
2001–02	3,762
2002–03	4,597
2003–04	3,574
2004–05	4,542
2005–06	5,542
⁽³⁾ 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.

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