The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (the Department)
| Responsible for setting a national strategy for waste disposal and overseeing the programme of local authority PFI projects. |
Waste Implementation Programme
| Set up by the Department to manage overall strategy on waste management in response to the package of strategic measures recommended by the Strategy Unit (SU) report Waste Not, Want Not (November 2002). |
Waste Infrastructure Development Programme (WIDP)
| A special delivery unit within the Waste Implementation Programme, set up in 2006 to accelerate the delivery of waste infrastructure and support local authorities undertaking projects. The board includes representatives of Partnerships UK and the 4ps. |
| Established by the Government in 2000 to support public authorities undertaking large or complex procurements and programmes, particularly those undertaken as Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), including under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). PUK supports public bodies throughout the UK at central, devolved and local authority levels. It is itself a PPP. |
The Public Private Partnerships Programme (4ps)
| Set up in 1996, works in partnership with all local authorities to secure funding and accelerate the development, procurement and implementation of PFI schemes, public private partnerships and other complex projects and programmes. |