WasteDataFlow and LATS 2005/6 audit and reconciliations Heather Barker Technical Advisor

Headlines 2005/6  100% of authorities used WDF and completed returns by 30 September  100% of authorities were within their BMW targets  6 authorities traded or borrowed in order to meet their targets

Reporting Produced by EPSIM, Defra

Auditing - Enviros validation Produced by EPSIM, Defra

The Agency’s role  Audit data - qualitative assessment, final destinations, reject rates, landfill tonnages  Provide a draft reconciliation - for trading  Retire final accounts and move WDF data into public domain (level 40)

The LATS Team

What happens to your data? Data Hub Authorities notified by WDF that validation is complete and data loaded onto hub Level 35 EA Reconciliations sent to authorities Check accuracy, quality and consistency of data Environment Agency Audit Qualitative checks - final destinations, reject rates and cross-boundary movement Regs require audit to be completed within 5 months of end of quarter Authority Enter data level 20 authorise to level 30 Enviros Validation Quantitative check of trends/anomalies and discrepancies EA report performance to Defra EA report performance to Defra EA report perfromance to Defra Authority Amends rolled down data as necessary Validation needs to be completed within 1 month

99 Authorities got data to level 35 on time - all received draft reconciliation by 31 Aug 12 Authorities provided late data - all received draft reconciliation by 6 Sep 10 Authorities with very late data - received a final reconciliation figure on 2 October Reconciliation

Heads up to local authorities on performance Period of one month when authorities can trade/borrow to hit targets Opportunity to disagree if ‘a fundamental and major error’ has occurred. 3 Authorities successful under above criteria The purpose of the reconciliation

108 Authorities have agreed - data rolled up level 40 accounts retired within trading registry 42 Authorities queried their draft reconciliation 13 Authorities disagreed with the reconciliation Publication of annual LATS report 10 Nov - awaiting outcome of disputes Current status on reconciliations

Improve selection lists for final destinations Improve validation process 2006/7 amend mass balance for rejects to efw Mass balance calculation - UAs on WDF Mass balance calculation - WDAs (discussion) Finally, Suggestions for improvements