Environmental Taxes - 16th July 2012

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Environmental Taxes.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-07-16/debates/12071618000015/EnvironmentalTaxes

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Miss Chloe Smith)

Climate Change Levy;

Climate change mitigation; carbon reduction; energy efficiency.

Climate change adaptation; water efficiency, water quality in the environment (diffuse pollution), flood mitigation.

Revenue Forecast for Environmental Taxes Tax Actual Revenue Raised 2010/11 Actual Revenue Raised 2011/12 Revenue Forecast 2012/13 Revenue Forecast 2013/14 Revenue F orecast 2014/15 Revenue Forecast 2015/16 Climate Change Levy £0.7bn £0.7bn £0.7bn £0.7bn £0.7bn £0.8bn Aggregates Levy £0.3bn £0.3bn £0.3bn £0.3bn £0.3bn £0.3bn Landfill Tax £1.1bn £1.1bn £1.1bn £1.2bn £1.5bn £1.6bn EU ETS £0.4bn £0.3bn £0.7bn £1.5bn £1.6bn £1.7bn Carbon Reduction Commitment 0 £0.7bn £0.7bn £0.8bn £1.0bn £1.0bn Carbon Price Floor 0 0 0 £0.6bn £1bn £1.2bn Total £2.5bn £3.1bn £3.5bn £5.1bn £6.1bn £6.6bn

The Government also accept this broad definition but the Government’s definition focuses on the taxes that are explicitly environmental (e.g. climate change levy, landfill tax, aggregates levy etc) and those that are environmentally related but primarily revenue raising (e.g. fuel duty, air passenger duty, vehicle excise duty etc).

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