VoteClimate: Climate Change Levy: Agriculture - 5th January 2010

Climate Change Levy: Agriculture - 5th January 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Climate Change Levy: Agriculture.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-01-05/debates/10010611000009/ClimateChangeLevyAgriculture

Mr. Paice

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the monetary value of the contribution to Climate Change Levy receipts to the Carbon Trust from the (a) horticulture, (b) pig and (c) poultry industry since 2001. ( 307500 )

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Sarah McCarthy-Fry

When the Climate Change Levy package was introduced in 2001 some revenue was notionally hypothecated to help establish the Carbon Trust—an independent body now sponsored by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). It is primarily grant-funded by DECC and the Devolved Administrations, and in 2008-09 also received grant funding from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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