Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

Government actions to combat waste crime

Status: Closed Opened: 19 May 2022 Closed: 14 Dec 2022 26 recommendations 2 conclusions 1 report

Between 2004-05 and 2014-15, landfill tax on waste that emits greenhouse gases rose from £15 per tonne to £80 per tonne - a rise that saw the amount of waste sent to landfill reduce by 75% between 2010-11 and 2020-21. At the same time the money criminals could make by avoiding landfill tax through the …

Reports

1 report

Title	HC No.	Published	Items	Response
Eighteenth Report - Government actions to combat waste crime	HC 33	19 Oct 2022	28	Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items

12 Recommendation Eighteenth Report - Government actions … Deferred

Waste tracking data is currently collected in multiple systems: some paper-based and some digital, some...

Waste tracking data is currently collected in multiple systems: some paper-based and some digital, some operated by private contractors and some by the government; not all information is collated centrally.34 Since the 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy, the government has intended to collect more comprehensive tracking data in a single, …

Government response. The government agrees and anticipates the IT contract will be let by the end of 2022. The department will write to inform the Committee when this has happened and will provide a timeframe for full implementation once the supplier is …

HM Treasury

17 Recommendation Eighteenth Report - Government actions … Deferred

We heard of recent actions and successes in combatting landfill tax evasion.

We heard of recent actions and successes in combatting landfill tax evasion. HMRC has increased the number of its officials that are working on landfill tax compliance and it assured us that it works with the largest businesses to secure around 80% of total landfill tax revenue. It claimed that …

Government response. HMRC will provide a response outlining how it has improved its approach to landfill tax prosecutions by the end of December 2022.

HM Treasury

Oral evidence sessions

1 session

Date	Witnesses
15 Jun 2022	Richard Las · HM Revenue and Customs, Sir James Bevan · Environment Agency, Tamara Finkelstein · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	View ↗

Correspondence

2 letters

Date	Direction	Title
12 Jan 2023	—	Correspondence from Tamara Finkelstein CB, Permanent Secretary, The Department …
5 Jul 2022	—	Correspondence from Tamara Finkelstein, Permanent Secretary, Department for Env…