<p>Group 3: Technical (Amendments 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 1)</p>

Part of 10. 9. Stage 3 of the Landfill Disposals Tax (Wales) Bill – in the Senedd at 6:31 pm on 20 June 2017.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 6:31, 20 June 2017

Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I’d like to move and speak to all 33 Government amendments in this group, but not each one individually. I’m grateful to those who are responsible for organising these things for agreeing to put all technical amendments into this one group. I wrote to Members earlier today to provide some background as to the purpose behind the Government’s technical amendments set out in this group.

Very briefly, then, the amendments fall into a number of different categories. There is one amendment—amendment 5—needed to reflect changes to the Bill made at Stage 2; there are 18 amendments that update references in this Bill to paragraphs in the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017; there are seven amendments that correct minor grammatical issues or drafting style; there are four amendments that clarify drafting; there are two amendments that ensure accurate cross-referencing in the Bill; and finally, there is one amendment that changes the description in the long title of the Bill to ‘disposal of material as waste by way of landfill’, which is an accurate description of the competence in this area and reflects drafting elsewhere in this Bill.

None of these amendments, Dirprwy Lywydd, makes any difference to the substance of the Bill as scrutinised to date, and I hope that Members will feel willing to accept them.