According to media reports, York’s Labour MP Hugh Bayley accepted £4500 of hospitality at an Olympics games event on 6th August. The gift has been declared the House of Commons register and apparently came from Nestle.
The revelation comes only a few days after local Labour Councillors in York were criticised for accepting hospitality, worth around £1000, from lobbyists and commercial organisations.
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It has now been confirmed by the Council that the Landfill Tax penalties, that will have to be made by Council Taxpayers, are set to increase by nearly £400,000 this year.
More commercial waste is going to landfill and the amount that residents are composting was down in the early part of the year.
The closure of the Beckfield Lane recycling centre in April will save the Council only £40,000 a year (10% of the extra Landfill Tax bill that we now face).
The Council have confirmed that Labour’s Green Bin Tax plan will not be published for consultation until 2013. Instead there will be “a review into working patterns and shifts as well as a move away from same day collections for refuse and recycling”.
Labour have also threatened to privatise the waste collection service next year.
