Business support: BREW funding

Funding has been allocated for all three years of the BREW Programme, as indicated below.

Delivery Body

Expenditure 2005/6 (£m)

Expenditure 2006/7 (£m)

Expenditure 2007/8 (£m)

Action Sustainability

0

0.219

0.43

Carbon Trust

3

23.253

23.758

Defra’s Waste Data Strategy

0.5

2.1

1.9

Environment Agency

2

4.443

4.454

Envirowise

12

16.073

22.19

Market Transformation Programme

2.65

2.896

3.933

National Industrial Symbiosis Programme

2.675

5.7

9.772

Regional Development Agencies

5

11.71

10.9

Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts – Business Reuse Fund

0

1.974

1.415

Technology Strategy Board

2

5.854

26.8

WRAP

2.854

5.734

11.793

Other (includes coordination, communication, pilot projects,  funding for agricultural waste project and programme contingency fund)

0.321

3.801

4.677

Total

33

83.757

122.026

Defra has also continued to provide funding towards other business resource efficiency and waste activities in England, including £19.917m in 2006/07 and £25.3m in 2007/08 for the following:

Delivery Body

Activity

Expenditure 2006/07 (£m)

Expenditure 2007/08 (£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

6.017

15.4

Total

 

19.917

25.3

The above 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.

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: 17 September 2008
Page published: 27 May 2005