Digest of Environmental Statistics
Environmental Protection Expenditure by Industry
2006 Survey Results
- Executive Summary (PDF 76kb, 10 pages)
- Research Report (PDF 871kb, 111 pages)
- The technical annexes are as follows:
- Annex 1: Questionnaire and Guidance (PDF 207kb)
- Annex 2: Detailed Sampling Methodology (PDF 42kb)
- Annex 3: Validation of Responses (PDF 66kb)
- Annex 4: Response Codes for Sorting Correspondence (PDF 34kb)
- Annex 5: Drivers behind participation (PDF 50kb)
- Annex 6: Output of Data Analysis (PDF 84kb)
- Annex 7: Valid Data (PDF 109kb)
- Annex 8: Grossing-Up Procedure (PDF 62kb)
- Annex 9: Method for Derivation of Standard Error and Confidence Intervals (PDF 62kb)
- Annex 10: Detailed Results Tables (PDF 101kb)
In addition Defra has carried out the additional following analysis.
Industry Comparison Survey
The table below is designed to give an additional dimension to the results, setting the environmental protection expenditure for each industry into context. It is not particularly meaningful for a company to compare themselves against other companies either in their sector or in other sectors simply by looking at total expenditures. Therefore, attempts are made here to standardise the results to take account of company and overall industry sector size.
Table 1 shows environmental protection expenditure per employee and as a percent of turnover. This is an attempt to standardise results by removing the element of company size/industry sector size.
Download Table 1 available as MS Excel format (37kb)
The energy production sector had the most expenditure per employee (GBP 14,900) and the largest expenditure on environmental protection (GBP 1.6 billion).
Table 2 shows environmental protection expenditure split into operating and capital expenditure by media.
Download Table 2 available as Excel format (79kb)
Notes and definitions
Operating expenditure (OPEX) covers in-house expenditure associated with the operation of pollution control abatement equipment and payments to external organisations for environmental services. This includes labour costs, leasing payments and maintenance costs for equipment and payments made to others for the treatment and disposal of waste.
End-of-pipe capital expenditure (CAPEX) relates to expenditure on end-of-pipe pollution control equipment, which became operational in 2006. End-of-pipe equipment is used to treat, handle, measure or dispose of emissions and wastes from production and includes, for example, filter presses, waste water treatment plants and tanks for storing waste.
Integrated capital expenditure on environmental protection relates new or modified production facilities, which have been designed so that environmental protection is an integrated part of the process. Examples include installations for reducing water use or reuse of water and installations for the reuse of waste gas.
Notes
This data has large confidence intervals associated with them so the results should be treated with caution. As the survey becomes more established and the results more reliable it is hoped that more complex analyses can be made available.
Sector Profiles
Profiles for each industry SIC grouping containing information to assist companies wishing to benchmark their performance in this area are now available.
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Page last modified: 23 September 2008
Page published: 20 July 2007