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Refuse Collection

I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend on her report. On the point that she raises, may I make it clear that the Government's large investment programme—£2 billion for private finance initiative credits for investment in waste infrastructure—is now designed in such a way that the conflict to which she refers, which is historical, will no longer arise? There is no question that authorities that brought such plants on stream would be allowed to have recycling rates that were jeopardised or kept down because of the potential for energy from waste.