Environmental Audit - Fourth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 14 February 2000.
CONTENTS
TERMS OF REFERENCE
REPORT
On proposals for a pesticides tax
On proposals for an aggregates tax
On the Climate Change Levy
Other aspects of the Government's approach
and the Pre-Budget Report 1999
INTRODUCTION
PROPOSED PESTICIDES TAX
Environmental impact
Environmental costs
Scope for reductions
Contribution of a tax
Economic impact
Government management and plans
Conclusions and recommendations
PROPOSED AGGREGATES TAX
Environmental impacts and costs of aggregates
extraction
Contribution of a tax
Government management and plans
Conclusions and recommendations
CLIMATE CHANGE LEVY
Overall design of tax
Forecast carbon savings
Incidence of tax and eligibility for rebates
Monitoring
Emissions trading
Conclusions and recommendations
GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION / MANAGEMENT OF PROPOSED
TAXES
OTHER ASPECTS OF THE PRE-BUDGET REPORT
Environmental evaluation of budgetary
proposals
Ex post evaluation
Goods and bads
Statement of Intent
The role of government procurement
Abandonment of the fuel duty escalator
VAT on energy saving measures
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE REPORT
APPENDIX 1-Government Response to the Committee's
Eighth Report, Session 1998-99, on Budget 1999
LIST OF WITNESSES
LIST OF MEMORANDA INCLUDED IN THE MINUTES
OF EVIDENCE
LIST OF APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 195-II)
APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 76-II)
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