<p>Group 5: Taxable Weight of Material (Amendments 13, 15, 16, 18)</p>

Part of 10. 9. Stage 3 of the Landfill Disposals Tax (Wales) Bill – in the Senedd at 6:46 pm on 20 June 2017.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 6:46, 20 June 2017

I know that when Mark Reckless was a member of the Finance Committee, he took a particular interest in the issue of when the weight of a taxable disposal should be identified, and indeed in water provisions and how we should make sure that they were effectively reflected in the Bill, and amendments were moved at Stage 2 to respond to some of the points that he had made in earlier discussions. So, the way in which the Bill, as amended at Stage 2, deals with the point at which material should be weighed is now consistent with what members of the Finance Committee saw when they were at Lamby Way, so I don’t envisage that this regulation-making power would be immediately needed to respond to that. But as members of the committee heard during that visit and from other expert witnesses, technology in this area is changing all the time and it may be that in future some other, more accurate methods of weighing material to be taken to landfill will be devised, and this regulation-making power would allow Ministers to make sure that the way in which the law operates in Wales would be consistent with the best practice in the field. That’s why we are hoping to take the amendment through the Assembly this afternoon.