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Joint Waste Authorities

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under what circumstances a local authority which joins a Joint Waste Authority (JWA) will be permitted to leave the JWA unilaterally. (217813)

Joint waste authorities (JWAs) will be statutory bodies, established by Order. A local authority will not be able to leave a JWA unilaterally. JWAs can only be dissolved where all the constituent authorities agree to do so or where the Secretary of State considers it is necessary to do so. This will give them a structural stability that should appeal to the waste management industry and to potential investors.