<p>Group 8: Welsh Ministers’ Exercise of Powers and Duties under this Act (Amendment 49</p>

Part of 10. 9. Stage 3 of the Landfill Disposals Tax (Wales) Bill – in the Senedd at 6:58 pm on 20 June 2017.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 6:58, 20 June 2017

Welsh Conservatives support this amendment in principle. However, Steffan Lewis has—I would say inadvertently, but probably advertently—hit upon an interesting aspect with the way that this tax proceeded in committee at Stage 2. We did have discussions about that balance, that very important balance between having a tax that is there to raise funds, and we know we’re going to lose money from the block grant when this tax is devolved, so that’s its primary aim, vis-à-vis the environmental aspect of the tax, which others argued is the primary aim. I wasn’t entirely confident in the Stage 2 deliberations we did that we were entirely clear about where that balance lay. I just heard what you said, Steffan, that this is primarily an environmental tax and so its future role in reducing landfill should be safeguarded at all costs. I’ll give way to Mike Hedges.