Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:45 am on 25th June 2002.
Given that some quarrying will inevitably continue to take place—not all quarrying can be replaced by recycling—what measures is the Economic Secretary proposing, within the framework of the levy or elsewhere, to encourage good environmental stewardship by producers still extracting from the ground? How will this measure,
which seems to tax the smart disposal of the inevitable by-product of their quarrying, help that process?