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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 28 February 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Phyllis Starkey. The answering member was Joan Ruddock.

Refuse Collection

Westminster hall debate on a motion for the adjournment on refuse collection (Inc ref to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee fifth report of session 2006-07, on Refuse Collection, HC 536, and the Government response thereto, HC 1095.) Motion made, and Question proposed, That the sitting be now adjourned.—[Mr. David.]

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
472 c321-52WH 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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Proceeding contributions
Jacqui Lait | 472 c349WH (Link to this contribution) Has the Minister heard what Steve Creed of WRAP said when he announced the end of the funding suppor...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c348-9WH (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with that point. We need to look further at the issue of garden waste. I am a k...
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John Pugh | 472 c350WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister referred to anaerobic digestion on the continent. I am sure that it exists on the conti...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c349-50WH (Link to this contribution) We are conscious of the important work that has been done by a variety of delivery bodies, including...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c351WH (Link to this contribution) The FOI request to her Department was for the responses to the consultation on bin taxes. The respon...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c350WH (Link to this contribution) If the Department has made a study of it, I have not got the information. I will write to the hon. G...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c351WH (Link to this contribution) We need to be very clear about this. First, there has not been a consultation on AWC, which has been...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c346WH (Link to this contribution) I have an entirely practical question. How does the Minister envisage charging larger families and i...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c346-8WH (Link to this contribution) Poverty is no reason why people cannot recycle. People can avoid charges in such schemes by doing wh...
Dan Rogerson | 472 c348WH (Link to this contribution) The interesting question that the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West addressed earlier was on...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c351WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister also accept that a significant amount of fly-tipping is done by small business ent...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c351-2WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is a combination of things. Around half of fly-tips contain ma...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c342WH (Link to this contribution) I am in the middle of some waste disposal, I am afraid. I am concerned about the time it will take ...
Dan Rogerson | 472 c342WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady referred to the chicken-and-egg situation regarding the whipping up of concerns and wh...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c341-2WH (Link to this contribution) We are not going to get much further with this argument. I replied in terms of the potential true ec...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c342WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, and I was encouraging the Minister to commit herself to that. I hope th...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c341WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is being disingenuous. She knows that the indicative amounts, which my predecessor quo...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c341WH (Link to this contribution) That could well be what the Government plan to impose; we do not know. We have been told that the am...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c341WH (Link to this contribution) I asked the hon. Lady, as she defended those papers and what they said, how she accounted for, and h...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c341WH (Link to this contribution) Whose being disingenuous? The hon. Lady said that the Daily Express reported that the charge would b...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c341WH (Link to this contribution) How does the hon. Lady regard an article that appeared in the Daily Express suggesting that the char...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c346WH (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's enthusiasm, and that of other Committee members. I understand why ...
Dan Rogerson | 472 c346WH (Link to this contribution) I am interested to explore a little further why the Government support pilots rather than opening it...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c346WH (Link to this contribution) We have considered that carefully. I depart very much from the argument that the hon. Lady made earl...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c345WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that the schemes are revenue neutral, because charges are recycled back to those w...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c344-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows full well that the initial increase in landfill tax of £3 wa...
Dan Rogerson | 472 c344WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes the point that local authorities have invested any savings in developing services...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c343-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Communities and Local Government Committee and to the Liaison Committee for the...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I am trying to follow the hon. Lady's argument, but I would be grateful if she clarified it. Am I to...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I would have thought that our earlier exchanges demonstrated that I am keen to reduce the amount of ...
John Pugh | 472 c325WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady gives credibility to the persuasive powers of councils, which surprises me. Is she awa...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c325-6WH (Link to this contribution) That would be difficult to demonstrate; that is the point. Every time AWC has been introduced, there...
David Leslie Taylor | 472 c326WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it has been difficult for local authorities of all party political pe...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c326-8WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. I was amused that, after our report was published, even though it did not back up what the ...
Dan Rogerson | 472 c328WH (Link to this contribution) I am following with interest the hon. Lady's comments about variable charging. Did the Committee loo...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c328-9WH (Link to this contribution) No, we did not. We looked at the way in which decisions by the waste disposal authorities reduce the...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c329-30WH (Link to this contribution) Good gardeners, whether in urban, suburban or rural areas, would not put anything that could be comp...
Dan Rogerson | 472 c334-5WH (Link to this contribution) I reiterate my compliments to the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey) and her Co...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c335WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman's view that small and medium-sized businesses should be given greate...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c330-1WH (Link to this contribution) I think so. Nobody produced the numbers to demonstrate that point, but I know from my own council—I ...
John Pugh | 472 c331-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is disappointing to see so few hon. Members in the Chamber to discuss this important subject. Ind...
John Pugh | 472 c339WH (Link to this contribution) I hate to put in a good word for those involved in the packaging industry, but they would probably m...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c339WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. I remember being able to buy bags of broken biscuits. Those who are old...
Dan Rogerson | 472 c335-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am aware of all the problems that the various agencies that work with DEFRA and rely on it for the...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c338-9WH (Link to this contribution) I reiterate my congratulations to the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey) and he...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c339WH (Link to this contribution) To put a counter point, does the hon. Lady accept that one reason why there is so much food wastage ...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c339-41WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her intervention. At some point, I was going to congratulate the ...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c321-2WH (Link to this contribution) I assume that we have a low representation of Back-Bench Members, with the exception of my hon. Frie...
John Pugh | 472 c323WH (Link to this contribution) Do not all local authorities share the same problems and have to solve them in rather similar ways? ...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c323WH (Link to this contribution) That is indeed the case. We compiled our report in the run-up to the local elections, and many asser...
Jacqui Lait | 472 c323WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Lady and her Committee on a very good report. It focuses entirely on r...
David Leslie Taylor | 472 c322WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on the quality of the report. She talks about the various borough init...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c322-3WH (Link to this contribution) I sense a press release coming. My hon. Friend paints quite a disgusting word picture of piles of di...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c323-4WH (Link to this contribution) No, we did not, because the matter was not within the purview of our report or, indeed, our Committe...
Joan Ruddock | 472 c324WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend on her report. On the point that she raises, may I make it clear...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c324WH (Link to this contribution) Excellent. Perhaps I had better get on to the key points that I intend to make. I shall pass over mo...
Dan Rogerson | 472 c324WH (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Lady and her colleagues on the Committee on the report. Clearly, they ...
Phyllis Starkey | 472 c324-5WH (Link to this contribution) We mentioned reuse in the report, but did not consider it in depth. We said that local authorities n...
Subjects
Costs Biodegradability Landfill Domestic waste Incinerators Local government Pollution Powers Waste management Waste disposal Nappies
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