Landfill Tax (No. 2)

This statutory instrument implements the loss on ignition testing regime for landfill tax. Landfi...

Order. I hesitate to interrupt the Minister, but this is not a place for general conversation. Th...

Operators pass on the cost of the tax to those using their site to dispose of their waste. For so...

As the Minister has helpfully set out, the landfill tax was first introduced in 1996 and, under t...

I welcome the Minister to his portfolio. I had several meetings with his predecessor on this subj...

We have had a good, if short, debate on this important matter. Let me deal with some of the point...

Does my hon. Friend the Minister appreciate that it is a given that the higher the tax, the great...

Landfill operators must take a certain number of samples per customer load, depending on the risk...

Can the Minister see that the next area of potential tax evasion will be the sampling regime and ...

There is probably no fool-proof or fraud-proof system of taking samples. People will seek to get ...

How many prosecutions have been taken forward?

I may get inspiration on that point before I sit down. If not, I will not have to write to the ho...