Request
1a. For all Authorities – Financial question: what are your Authority’s financial expenditure outturns (revenue, not capital) for the years 2023/24 and 2024/25 for your recycling and waste service? What revenue budget for your recycling and waste service has your Authority set for 2025/26
1b. For all Authorities – Financial question: What value (£) of Packaging EPR payment is your Authority due to receive from Pack UK in 2025/26? To which of your Authority’s services is this funding allocated? (Please specify the service, or services, this funding is allocated to).
3. For all Authorities – targets/ambitions: please indicate what authority-approved recycling targets/ambitions you have in place for, firstly, all recycling (dry-recycling and organics) and, secondly, for dry-recycling (i.e. the collective target for the range of packaging & other recyclable materials you collects and/or dispose of) for the years 2025/26, 2030/31 and 2035/36. Or if there are no authority-approved targets for the specific years below, please indicate what recycling performance targets or ambitions your Authority has in place, if any.
Response
Good afternoon,
Further to our email acknowledging your environmental information request (reference 2025-257), our response is as follows.
You requested:
1a. For all Authorities – Financial question: what are your Authority’s financial expenditure outturns (revenue, not capital) for the years 2023/24 and 2024/25 for your recycling and waste service? What revenue budget for your recycling and waste service has your Authority set for 2025/26
1b. For all Authorities – Financial question: What value (£) of Packaging EPR payment is your Authority due to receive from Pack UK in 2025/26? To which of your Authority’s services is this funding allocated? (Please specify the service, or services, this funding is allocated to).
3. For all Authorities – targets/ambitions: please indicate what authority-approved recycling targets/ambitions you have in place for, firstly, all recycling (dry-recycling and organics) and, secondly, for dry-recycling (i.e. the collective target for the range of packaging & other recyclable materials you collects and/or dispose of) for the years 2025/26, 2030/31 and 2035/36. Or if there are no authority-approved targets for the specific years below, please indicate what recycling performance targets or ambitions your Authority has in place, if any.
Our response:
1a.
Outturn for 2023/24: Annual Report 23/24
Outturn for 2024/25: Annual Report 24/25
Budget for 2025/26: Budget and Levy 25-26.pdf
1b For all Authorities – Financial question: What value (£) of Packaging EPR payment is your Authority due to receive from Pack UK in 2025/26? To which of your Authority’s services is this funding allocated? (Please specify the service, or services, this funding is allocated to).
£ Value of pEPR payment 2025/26: Based on the revised notice of assessment provided in July 2025 for 2025/26, NLWA expect to receive £13,204,358.77 from PackUK. It should be noted that this is lower than the £14,479,000 that was provided in the initial notice of assessment received in November 2024. The guarantee provided by the Treasury exceptionally for 2025/26 means that the difference in assessment figures is expected be paid by MHCLG instead of PackUK.
Specify the service(s) your pEPR funding is allocated to: As a Statutory Joint Waste Disposal Authority, all of NLWA’s spending is related to waste management, recycling, and waste prevention. Information on NLWA’s budget for 2025/26 was reported to the Authority in February 2025. Section 6 of the report talks extensively about the authority’s plans for the money. A link to this report can be found here: 02 Budget and Levy 25-26.pdf. NLWA have also signed the PackUK declaration to confirm its intentions for the spending of PackUK funding.
3. Recycling performance targets/ambitions:
Recycling performance targets/ambitions: The recently adopted North London Joint Waste Strategy sets out a series of ambitions for north London’s waste and recycling performance. The final Strategy is expected to be published soon, however the draft version (which contains the same targets and ambitions) can be found here: 06.02 Joint Waste Strategy Appendix A.pdf
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you may ask for an internal review, which should be submitted within two months of when you received our response to either informationrequests@nlwa.gov.uk or enquiry form quoting the above reference.
If you are not content with the outcome of the review, you may complain to the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, or via their online portal. The Information Commissioner will not usually accept complaints before a review has been completed.
Kind regards,
North London Waste Authority
