Business Resource Efficiency & Waste Programme (BREW)
BREW funding
Funding has been allocated for all three years of the BREW Programme, as indicated below. The figures are subject to small change as the financial year 2007/08 comes to an end.
The figures demonstrate that over the three year period from 2005 to 2008, at least £284m of funding is being spent by Defra on business resource efficiency activities through the three years of the BREW programme.
2007-08
£123m has been allocated to the following activities in 2007-08:
Delivery Body |
Budget 2005/6 (£m) |
Budget 2006/7 (£m) |
Budget 2007/8 (£m) |
Action Sustainability |
0 |
0.219 |
0.43 |
Carbon Trust |
3 |
23.4 |
25 |
Defra’s Waste Data Strategy |
0.5 |
2.1 |
1.9 |
Environment Agency |
2 |
4.454 |
4.454 |
Envirowise |
12 |
16.772 |
22.19 |
Market Transformation Programme |
2.65 |
2.8955 |
3.895 |
National Industrial Symbiosis Programme |
2.675 |
5.7 |
8.25 |
Regional Development Agencies |
5 |
11.71 |
10.9 |
Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts – Business Reuse Fund |
0 |
2 |
1.43 |
Technology Strategy Board |
2 |
5.854 |
26.8 |
WRAP |
2.854 |
5.788 |
12.174 |
Other (includes coordination, communication, pilot projects, funding for agricultural waste project and programme contingency fund) |
0.321 |
3.42 |
5.5 |
Total |
33 |
84.17002 |
122.923 |
Defra has also continued to provide funding towards other business resource efficiency and waste activities in England, including £18.6m in 2006/07 and £25.3m in 2007/08 for the following:
Delivery Body |
Activity |
2006/07 Funding (£m) |
2007/08 Funding (£m) |
Carbon Trust |
Energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction activities |
13.9 |
9.9 |
WRAP |
Work with the construction, manufacturing, retail and recycling and reprocessing industries to reduce waste and encourage recycling |
4.7 |
15.4 |
Total |
|
18.6 |
25.3 |
Future Defra funding for business resource efficiency 2008/09
Funding for business resource efficiency activities has been announced by Defra for 2008/09. See the following page for more information.
Page last modified: 23 June 2008
Page published: 27 May 2005