Environmental Audit Committee - Third Report
Pre-Budget Report 2008: Green fiscal policy in a recession

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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 10 March 2009.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

Introduction

Focus of this inquiry

Green fiscal stimulus

Context: A 'Green New Deal'

Green fiscal stimulus in the PBR

Response to the Government's green stimulus

Green finance, regulation, and recession

Sustainable development and the recession

Green taxation

Shifting the burden of taxation from 'goods' to 'bads'

Aviation

Motoring

Other environmental taxes

Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Tuesday 27 January 2009

Tuesday 3 February 2009

Written Evidence

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Prepared 16 March 2009