Extracts from Finance (No. 3) Bill Committee (Eighth sitting) - Dec 6
Friday, 7 December 2018 08:16
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Robert
Jenrick):...Landfill tax continues to provide an incentive to
reduce waste from landfill and ensure it is recycled and reduced:
as landfill is the most expensive form of waste disposal, that
makes perfect sense. We have also noted in the Budget that we would
be willing to consider a future incineration tax once
further infrastructure has been put in place to reduce, for
example, the amount of plastics that are incinerated,
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The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Robert
Jenrick):...Landfill tax continues to provide an incentive
to reduce waste from landfill and ensure it is recycled and
reduced: as landfill is the most expensive form of waste disposal,
that makes perfect sense. We have also noted in the Budget that we
would be willing to consider a future incineration tax once further
infrastructure has been put in place to reduce, for example, the
amount of plastics that are incinerated, further improving the
environment and reducing the amount of throwaway single-use
plastics...
(Norwich South)
(Lab):...According to DEFRA’s collated statistics on waste
published on 9 October this year, recycling rates from household
waste, biodegradable municipal waste and packaging waste have not
been updated since 2016. Moreover, data on the recovery rate for
construction and demolition waste; commercial and industrial
activity waste; total waste generation and final treatment of all
waste; and waste infrastructure have not been updated since 2014.
Will the Minister commit both to writing to his
ministerial colleagues at DEFRA asking them to urgently update
those statistics, and to sending that data to all members of the
Committee? In the light of such appalling monitoring, can he
explain how the Government could oversee any type of effective
management regime, or ensure that different waste streams are not
ending up at landfill sites or being dumped elsewhere, illegally,
to the detriment of local communities and urban, suburban and
natural environments?
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