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Waste Strategy for England 2007 programme board and stakeholder group

In the Waste Strategy for England 2007 the Government made a commitment to establish the Waste Strategy Board to provided leadership within and across Government in delivering the new Strategy and a new Waste Stakeholder Group to provide advice and input to delivery of the Strategy and future development of policy.

Waste Strategy Board

The Board has been established and held its first meeting on 9 July 2007. 

Membership

Daniel Instone, Defra’s head of Waste Strategy, is chair of the Board which also includes other senior Defra officials (representing the waste and sustainable consumption and production agendas), representation from other government departments with a key interest and role in waste and representation from the Environment Agency and Local Government Agency

Two Non-Executive members were appointed to the Board in November to provide independent challenge and advice: Jiggy Lloyd and Caroline Arnold.

Jiggy Lloyd
Jiggy Lloyd is an independent consultant in public policy, corporate strategy and sustainable development. She is an Associate of the environmental policy think-tank Green Alliance and a former member of the Government’s Sustainable Procurement Taskforce. In 2006 she was Interim Director of the Defra/DTi UK Business Taskforce on Sustainable Consumption and Production.  She has held environment, sustainability and government affairs posts in a variety of organisations.

Jiggy Lloyd has degrees in ecology and forestry and is a partner in a farming business in Lincolnshire. She is a Nuffield Scholar, and amongst other roles is Vice-President of the Town and Country Planning Association and a non-executive board member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.

Caroline Arnold
Caroline Arnold is Head of Waste Management at Kent County Council where she is responsible for the day to day running of Kent's municipal waste disposal services, as well as putting in place the future processing and treatment infrastructure to deliver Kent's Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy.

Caroline has degrees in Environmental Science and Coastal and Marine Resource Management which had underpinned a career in a variety of environmental roles in the voluntary, university, and local authority sectors. She joined Kent County Council in 2002, initially as Head of Environment, before moving onto the role of Head of Waste Management in 2005.

The following organisations are represented:

  • Defra
  • Local Government Association
  • Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
  • Department for Communities and Local Government
  • Cabinet Office
  • Her Majesty’s Treasury
  • Environment Agency
Terms of Reference

The Waste Strategy Board’s remit is to:

  • drive delivery across government of the strategy
  • monitor and evaluate the implementation of the strategy
  • provide advice, support and direction to government and delivery organisations in achieving the sustainable management of waste
  • develop new policy actions as necessary to deliver the ambitious outcomes sought in the light of progress
Meeting dates and minutes

The Board meets quarterly with additional meetings if the need arises. Scheduled dates are:

Previous minutes available from: wsbsecretariat@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Waste Strategy Stakeholder Group

The Group has been established and held its preliminary meeting on 20 July 2007.

Membership

Caroline Arnold, Head of Waste Management at Kent County Council, chair’s the Group and members are drawn from waste stakeholders across the piece (including business, waste management industry, local government, third sector, environmental non government organisations and consumers and households).

The following organisations are represented on the Group:

  • Advisory Committee on Packaging
  • Association for Organics Recycling
  • British Metals Recycling Association
  • British Plastics Federation
  • British Retail Consortium
  • Chartered Institution of Waste Management, The
  • Chemical Industries Association
  • Community Composting Network/Community Recycling
  • Confederation of British Industry
  • Confederation of Paper Industries
  • Confederation of Paper Industries
  • Construction Products Association
  • Consumer Focus
  • County Surveyors Society
  • Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
  • Department for Communities and Local Government
  • EEF
  • Environment Agency
  • Environmental Industries Commission
  • Environmental Services Association
  • Federation of Small Businesses
  • Food and Drink Federation
  • Friends of the Earth
  • Furniture Recycling Network
  • Government Office for the East Midlands
  • Green Alliance
  • House Builders Federation
  • Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee
  • Local Government Association
  • National Association of Waste Disposal Officers
  • Planning Officers Society
  • Public Private Partnership Forum
  • South East England Development Agency
  • Textile Recycling Association
  • Waste and Resources Research Advisory Group
  • Waste Watch
  • Women’s Institute
  • WRAP
Terms of reference

The principal function off the Group is to provide advice to Government and the Waste Strategy Board and input to delivery of the strategy, and future development of policy and strategy.

In carrying out this function the Stakeholder Group has a number of key roles:

  • to help identify the main challenges that need to be overcome in order to implement the targets and outcomes set out in the Strategy
  • to advise on how these key challenges should be tackled
  • to work with Government, regulators and others to tackle these challenges
  • to advise on priorities for implementation
  • to monitor progress towards Strategy targets and outcomes
  • to challenge policies or practices which appear inconsistent with Strategy targets and outcomes
  • to provide a high level forum for discussion of strategic and cross-cutting issues on waste strategy, policy, regulation and implementation
Meetings

The Waste Stakeholder group meets quarterly:

Previous minutes available from: wsbsecretariat@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Page last modified: 5 November 2009
Page published: 24 May 2007