Environmental Audit - Second Report

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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 28 February 2001.

CONTENTS

Terms of Reference

REPORT

Summary of recommendations and conclusions

Introduction

Fuel Duty and the Environment

The Fuel Duty Escalator

The impact of the FDE

Stepping off the escalator

Budget 1999—the first step

The "Fuel Crisis"

Pre-Budget 2000

The "new environmental policies"

The move to ULSP

Diesel and Petrol

Vehicle Excise Duty (VED)

Cars

Lorries

Company Car Taxation

Environmental Appraisal

The Long Term Strategy

Moving to a low carbon economy

Present Government Initiatives

Powershift

Green Fuel Challenge

Building the foundations for change

Other issues arising from the Pre-Budget Report 2000

Introduction

Government response to the EAC report on Budget 2000

Pesticides

Background

Progress

The Aggregates Levy

The Climate Change Levy (CCL)

Background

Progress—February 2001

Resources

VAT on energy saving materials

Background

Progress

Urban regeneration

Background

Strategy and environmental appraisal

Background

Strategy

Appraisal

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE REPORT

APPENDICES

Appendix I: Government response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, 1999-2000, Budget 2000 and the Environment, HC 404




Appendix II: HC 296 (1999-2000) Fifteenth Report of the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee, Road Haulage: Conclusions and Recommendations

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 71-II)

Wednesday 13 December 2000
Wednesday 10 January 2001
Thursday 18 January 2001

APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 71-II)

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Prepared 5 March 2001