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Eunomia Research and Consulting

Answer

Since 2001, DEFRA has spent a total of £2,464,622.14 on projects commissioned from the consultancy, Eunomia. Due to the wide ranging nature of work, it would involve a disproportionate cost to identify individual projects, which have included many areas of work across DEFRA. Eunomia currently has a contract with DEFRA and the Department for Communities and Local Government to draft a protocol and guidance to improve the interface between environmental permitting and planning permission.Data for individual projects are however available for those commissioned by the Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and the Environment Agency.Table 1 lists the title, subject and cost of work commissioned from Eunomia by WRAP. These are inclusive of VAT.Table 2 shows completed outturn project expenditure to Eunomia by the Environment Agency between 2001 and 15 June 2010.Currently, Eunomia is engaged on a single project for the Environment Agency, approved expenditure details of which are given in Table 3.

Table 1
Title	Subject	Cost (£)
Investment of growth	Investment for growth in the third sector	44,502.76
1st round R and D seminars	1st round R and D seminars	7,157.20
UK market development	UK market development	7,108.75
Promotion cost model	Development of a promotion cost model	2,167.88
Compost supply	Evaluation of compost supply and demand in south-east (incl. London) and east England	39,798.49
Peer review	Peer review: sink and sewer report	1,883.07
ROTATE specialists	Appointment of external specialists to support the work of ROTATE (2004-2006)	59,441.89
Kerbside good practice	Kerbside good practice guide	58,457.95
Mixed plastic collection	Mixed plastics collection practice and dissemination	80,068.48
Collecting gate fees	Collecting gate fees pilot study	40,806.54
Gate fees survey¹	Gate fees survey¹	83,860.50
R and D trials	Improved segregation technologies	3,046.57
Project monitoring	Technical support—added value markets	5,184.01
Confidence in compost	Research to examine issues associated with the use of quality compost in agriculture	2,083.00
Use of compost in Europe¹	European review: use of compost in agriculture¹	31,015.62
Technical advice on TAD and AD	Technical support on anaerobic digestion	5,090.75
Options food waste	Options food waste processing into a product	40,355.13
Anaerobic digestion and TAD	Food waste	23,270.25
Speakers costs	development and delivery of a training resource for the UK organics waste recycling industry	2,633.32
Organics programme development	Advice on MBT	3,591.82
Peer review	Review of LCA estimator	13,879.69
Landfill bans research	The environmental, economic and practical impacts of landfill bans	115,939.97
External assessors	Regional market development fund—round one	5,349.78
ROTATE Northern Ireland	Kerbside options for the additions of biowaste collections	33,516.98
Consultancy support to ROTATE	Appointment of consultants to support the work of ROTATE (2006-08)	201,621.77
Food waste collection trials	Local authority food waste collection trials	21,572.66
Kerbside benchmarking	Benchmarking performance of kerbside collection	3,758.21
Stillage vehicle project	Kerbside recycling vehicle design and build project	1524.44
Local authority support—PFI projects	Support to Dorset Waste Partnership	28,986.88
LA support¹	Local authority support—consultancy advice (2008-10)¹	269,138.38
ROTATE Northern Ireland¹	Support for local authorities in Northern Ireland¹	86,649.56
Commercial food waste¹	Collections of food waste from businesses¹	38,140.10
Procurement guidance¹	Review of the availability and type of waste collection service procurement guide¹	19,864.00
Food waste trials	Surrey	22,415.88
Food waste trials	Guildford	2,226.07
Support to food waste collection	Support to food waste collection programme	6,837.97
Compost standards consultation	BSI PAS consultation and dissemination	34,344.09
	Grand total	1,427,290.41
¹ These projects are currently live.

Table 2
Area of Environment Agency	Project title	Date purchase order approved	Value (excl. VAT) (£)
Environment and business—business performance and regulation— industry regulation	Expert advice on using damage cost methodologies to help us make regulatory decisions. The contractors will review existing methods and data, determine whether they are appropriate to use for various regulatory purposes, produce guidelines for their use with worked examples and comment on limitations and uncertainties.	14 December 2009	12,000.00
Evidence Economics	Review of Sustainable Consumption and Production Network (SCPnet) activities, 2007-10	10 December 2009	9,032.03
Environment and business—land and natural environment—land quality	To review the cost benefit section of H1 and provide recommendations for updating	17 March 2008	6,000.00
	Subtotal excl. VAT		27,032.03
	VAT at 17.5%		4,730.61
	Total incl. VAT at 17.5%		31,762.64

Table 3
PO Number (Ref)	Area of Environment Agency	Project title	Date purchase order approved	Value (excl. VAT)
30260099	Environment and business—business performance and regulation partnerships	Waste protocols project—financial impact assessment of a quality protocol for waste wood	4 December 2009	¹27,755.10
		Subtotal excl. VAT		27,755.10
		VAT at 17.5%		4,857.14
		Total incl. VAT at 17.5%		32,612.24
Of this figure, £22,358.92 (exclusive of VAT) has been spent and invoiced as of 15 June 2010.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2977; 511 c509-12W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Environment Agency WRAP Eunomia Research and Consulting

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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