Schedule 5
Climate Change Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
Peter Atkinson (Hexham, Conservative)
I remind the Committee that with this we are discussing the following: amendment No. 109, in schedule 5, page 69, line 32, at end insert
‘but no charges for residual domestic waste can be imposed unless the authority has made provision to collect all other materials not less than once every 14 days, including, (i) all plastics of whatever type, (ii) polystyrene, (iii) paper and card of all descriptions including tetrapak, (iv) glass and (v) metal and aluminium.’.
Amendment No. 110, in clause 70, page 33, line 9, leave out subsection (2).
Amendment No. 107, in clause 70, page 33, line 19, at end insert—
‘(c) does not include a power to create a criminal penalty on any householder for non-compliance with any aspect of a waste reduction scheme.’.
New clause 18—Waste authority’s power to reduce amount of council tax payable—
‘After section 13A of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) there is inserted—
“13B Power to reduce amount of tax payable in relation to household waste
(1) Where a person is liable to pay council tax in respect of any chargeable dwelling and any day, any waste collection authority or waste disposal authority may require the billing authority for the area in which the dwelling is situated to reduce the amount which he is liable to pay as respects the dwelling and the day to such extent as it thinks fit.
(2) The power under subsection (1) may only be exercised in connection with measures to reduce the amount of residual domestic waste produced in the authority’s area.
(3) The power under subsection (1) may be exercised in relation to particular cases or by determining a class of case in which liability is to be reduced to an extent provided by the determination.
(4) Where an authority exercises the power under subsection (1) the authority must pay or allow to the billing authority if requested an amount equivalent to the total reduction in the amount of tax payable each year as a result together with the reasonable administration costs of making such reductions.”’.
New clause 22—Waste reduction incentives—
‘(1) A waste collection authority whose area is in England may make a waste reduction scheme, the objective of which is to provide an incentive to recycle more domestic waste and accordingly to reduce the amount of residual domestic waste.
(2) A waste reduction scheme—
(a) must provide for the incentive to be a payment of monies worth an amount which the authority considers will be effective to achieve the purposes of the scheme, and
(b) may, in particular, permit a person to be supplied with a voucher which may be exchanged for goods or services.
(3) A waste collection authority may make a waste reduction scheme only if arrangements for the collection of recyclable domestic waste from premises separately from other waste are available to the occupiers of premises to which the scheme applies.
(4) A waste reduction scheme—
(a) may cover the whole or any part of the area of a waste collection authority, and
(b) may apply to all domestic premises, to domestic premises other than those of a specified description or to specified descriptions of domestic premises.
(5) An authority that has made a waste reduction scheme—
(a) must publish the scheme in such manner as it considers appropriate, and
(b) may amend or revoke the scheme.
(6) Where a waste collection authority that operates a waste reduction scheme is not also the waste disposal authority—
(a) the waste disposal authority may pay to the collection authority contributions of such amounts as the disposal authority may determine towards expenditure of the collection authority attributable to the scheme, and
(b) the collection authority must supply to the disposal authority such information as the disposal authority may reasonably require for the purpose of determining amounts under this section.
(7) In this section—
“domestic premises” means—
(a) a building or self-contained part of a building which is used wholly for the purposes of living accommodation,
(b) a caravan (as defined in section 29(1) of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c. 2)) that usually and for the time being is situated on a caravan site (within the meaning of that Act), or
(c) a moored vessel used wholly for the purposes of living accommodation;
“domestic waste” means household waste from domestic premises;
“recyclable domestic waste” means domestic waste that is capable of being recycled;
“recycling” means recycling, re-using or composting.’