1. Environmental protection expenditure - Supply-side estimates in the UK
Rocky Harris
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
United Kingdom

2. Constitutional background
UK has 12 broad administrative areas
3 Devolved Administrations (Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland)
9 English Regions
Each area has responsibility for promoting economic development

3. Study of Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) sector
Each region was asked to provide a list of companies and addresses assessed to be within the sector
These lists were matched against the national business register in order to obtain details of NACE sector, turnover and employment

4. Results 17,000 companies in EGS sector in 2004 400,000 employees
Turnover of 40 billion euros
Equal in size to aerospace and defence sectors
But ….

5. How does this compare with the UK demand side?
Demand Euro billion
Industry 5
Public sector 8
Households 3?
Exports ?
Agriculture/commerce ?
Total ?
Supply Euro billion
Env industry total output
Plus imports ?
Less non-environmental part of integrated processes
Less secondary production ?
Total ?? - ??

6. Questions
Have other Members States attempted to measure the supply side?
Have they found similar disparities?
To what extent do definitional issues (secondary production, integrated processes, exclusion of energy efficiency investments) account for the differences?