Waste Disposal: Council Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) whether domestic properties with a (a) Class M and (b) Class N council tax exemption will be liable to pay the new taxes for the collection of household rubbish; (230724)

(2) whether domestic properties with a Class V council tax exemption will be liable to pay the new taxes for the collection of household rubbish.

The Government have no plans to introduce new taxes for the collection of household rubbish.

Volume 482: debated on Tuesday 4 November 2008