Hilary Benn MP, Shadow DCLG secretary, responding to Eric Pickles’ pledge to bring back weekly bin collections, said:   “Eric Pickles has already announced that he wants to bring back weekly collections and he has totally failed to do so while wasting a quarter of a billion pounds of taxpayers money in the process. "He should let local councils work out what works best for their residents and  stop trying to tell them what to do, especially when it would be more expensive for council tax payers.”   Ends   Editor’s Note:   1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10931553/Councils-to-be-forced-by-law-to-bring-back-weekly-black-bin-collections.html