Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat), on Tuesday, 15 July 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 55 members in total.

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DEFRA'S PROPOSED REPEAL OF HOME ENERGY CONSERVATION ACT 1995

That this House recognises that the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 is one of the most important pieces of energy saving legislation; applauds the energy savings of 93.4 terawatt hours achieved in the first eight years of the Act; further recognises the many benefits the Act has brought, in terms of effective targeting of resources for household energy efficiency; recognises nevertheless that the Act might have achieved far more if the Government had not systematically failed to support it; is dismayed that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has now published proposals to repeal it; and therefore calls on the Government to scrap its plans to repeal the Act and instead take steps to strengthen it, thereby allowing it to reach its full potential to deliver household energy savings and contribute to the Government's stated climate change objectives.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2040 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Tim Yeo

Colin Challen

David Drew

Martin Horwood

David Howarth

Subjects

Conservation Climate change Energy

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk