8. 8. Debate: Stage 4 of the Landfill Disposals Tax (Wales) Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:26 pm on 27 June 2017.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 5:26, 27 June 2017

Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. I’ve been very grateful throughout the passage of the Bill to be able to rely on Nick Ramsay’s advice on what is being talked about in the pubs and clubs of Wales. Every time he’s assured me that this Bill was not being talked about there, the happier I’ve become. What I am sure of is that if we don’t get the implementation of these taxes right then that will soon change, and people will be talking about it everywhere. So, he was absolutely right to say that there is a very serious job of work to be done over the next nine months so that, when we arrive in April of next year, the Welsh Revenue Authority is ready for its responsibilities, and the way that the two taxes that have been taken through this National Assembly are being administered will mean that people throughout Wales can go about their ordinary business confident in the knowledge that things are being done effectively.

Thanks to all Members who have spoken about the spirit with which the legislation has been developed. These are highly technical, highly specialist pieces of legislation. They don’t involve, as Simon Thomas said, great issues of ideology. They are Bills that have benefited from the scrutiny process and the ideas that have emerged during it. I’m very grateful to Members’ indication that they’ll be supporting—[Interruption.] Of course.