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Planning and Energy Bill

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

470 c1733-71 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Planning and Energy Bill.
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

John Battle | 470 c1755 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we get the facts right. The Financial Times publishes investment in research an...

John Battle | 470 c1755 (Link to this contribution) I am looking forward to reading the hon. Gentleman's pamphlet, because I hope his proposals stretch ...

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John Battle | 470 c1751-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has focused on personal contributions. However, does she agree that we must ensure tha...

John Battle | 470 c1753 (Link to this contribution) Just for the record, emissions are sometimes the result of warm weather because the greatest use of ...

John Battle | 470 c1754 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should be fair. Many of those projects are funded by grant from central Governmen...

John Battle | 470 c1745-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree but perhaps the hon. Gentleman's background motive—this also applies to the response I gave ...

John Battle | 470 c1745 (Link to this contribution) I will be delighted to read anything that the Conservatives publish. I cannot say that I have read t...

John Battle | 470 c1743-4 (Link to this contribution) I jotted down a phrase that the hon. Gentleman used earlier. He said that what was needed was more i...

John Battle | 470 c1742-3 (Link to this contribution) It is customary to congratulate the Member who wins the ballot. I have always wondered why we do tha...

Iain Wright | 470 c1758 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the sentiments expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Mr. Caton) and the hon...

Iain Wright | 470 c1764-70 (Link to this contribution) I stand corrected, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We have also talked about the code for sustainable homes. Ag...

Michael Fallon | 470 c1770 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I should like to say that the case for the Bill has been well supported...

Iain Wright | 470 c1763-4 (Link to this contribution) I can understand the hon. Gentleman's point that the subjects are related. As an enabling Government...

Speaker | 470 c1764 (Link to this contribution) Order. If the Minister goes on like that, there will be great confusion in the Official Report.

Iain Wright | 470 c1763 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely certain what the hon. Gentleman is getting at. The point that I am advancing is th...

Adam Price | 470 c1763 (Link to this contribution) The Minister just said that the clause will place a general duty to refer to climate change measures...

Iain Wright | 470 c1762-3 (Link to this contribution) The main thrust of my argument is twofold. First, as I shall come to later, last year's planning pol...

Adam Price | 470 c1763 (Link to this contribution) Further to the point made by the hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Mr. Fallon), there are so many caveats i...

Iain Wright | 470 c1761-2 (Link to this contribution) I am unfamiliar with the Cambridge example, and I do not want to box myself in. Having said that, th...

Angela Watkinson | 470 c1762 (Link to this contribution) I was contemplating what points the Minister could possibly dredge up as objections to allowing the ...

Iain Wright | 470 c1760-1 (Link to this contribution) I would still maintain that throughout the 1980s, climate change was not one of the Thatcher Adminis...

David Howarth | 470 c1761 (Link to this contribution) Given what the Minister has said, will he put on the record that the Government's new policy positio...

Iain Wright | 470 c1759 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is missing the point. The extension to the time limits is necessary precisely bec...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1759-60 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not opposed to it in principle, although I am not familiar with the Housing and Regen...

Iain Wright | 470 c1760 (Link to this contribution) I begin by welcoming the spirit in which the debate has taken place today, and the intent, manner an...

Nick Hurd | 470 c1760 (Link to this contribution) Would the Minister acknowledge that Mrs. Thatcher was the first mainstream world leader to put clima...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1758 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is spot on. I think I am right in saying that there has not been a single prosecu...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1758 (Link to this contribution) That Bill will not capture a lot more, because we are not currently capturing any at all. If it catc...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1755-7 (Link to this contribution) The Government are pretty quick to claim credit for private sector investment when that goes up, and...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1755 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right, and I acknowledge the right hon. Gentleman's considerable experience in, a...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1757-8 (Link to this contribution) That is what a planning policy statement is—it is a diktat that comes from central Government on hig...

Martin Caton | 470 c1758 (Link to this contribution) One of the problems with relying solely on building standards to improve energy efficiency is that e...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1757 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to hear from the Minister.

Iain Wright | 470 c1757 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman's speech extremely closely. Will he inform the House precisely ...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1754-5 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right, although grants are not necessarily the best way of supporting in...

Angela Watkinson | 470 c1750-1 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Sevenoaks (Mr. Fallon) on bringing forward t...

Angela Watkinson | 470 c1752 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right; we need to consider such education and training for ve...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1752-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to speak on behalf of the official Opposition in strong favour of this excell...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1753-4 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point, but I was referring to mild winters when air conditioni...

Tom Brake | 470 c1754 (Link to this contribution) I would like to draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to my constituent Russell Smith who set up a com...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1754 (Link to this contribution) That is a terrific plug for a very good and welcome innovation. Ultimately, if we are honest, all t...

Nick Hurd | 470 c1748-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I have heard him make that point before. I think t...

Chris Huhne | 470 c1745 (Link to this contribution) To support the right hon. Gentleman's point about microgeneration, does he agree that the more we de...

Lord Barker of Battle | 470 c1744-5;470 c1745 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is talking a great deal of sense and he will find a lot of support for what...

Tom Brake | 470 c1743 (Link to this contribution) The Bill also allows for much more trials. Even in the case of BedZED, things often do not work quit...

Tom Brake | 470 c1742 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman's comments. Many other local authorities are following Mert...

Nick Hurd | 470 c1746-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds, West (John Battle). I was left feeling t...

Chris Huhne | 470 c1748 (Link to this contribution) On that point, the hon. Gentleman may note that in Sweden, where average January temperatures are 7°...

Bill Wiggin | 470 c1738 (Link to this contribution) I am just curious why the hon. Gentleman believes that the Government will not support the Bill. We ...

Martin Caton | 470 c1737-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises a very good point. He knows that, as a fellow Member representing a consti...

Tom Brake | 470 c1740-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak in favour of the Bill. The House is rightly focused on the issues of clima...

Martin Caton | 470 c1738-40 (Link to this contribution) I think I know what the Government will say—that the ground is already covered in planning policy st...

Michael Fallon | 470 c1736 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do. That is exactly the kind of issue that the Committee stage is designed for. We could cert...

Adam Price | 470 c1737 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and I would like to record Plaid Cymru's full support for the Bi...

Martin Caton | 470 c1736-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Sevenoaks (Mr. Fallon) on coming first in the ballot and, even mo...

Chris Huhne | 470 c1741 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the evidence from the continent, particularly Germany, is that when l...

Tom Brake | 470 c1741 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend's comments. More imagination is also required to allow certain ...

Peter Ainsworth | 470 c1741-2 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's point, but is it not encouraging that so many other councils in th...

Lord Boswell of Aynho | 470 c1734 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend take it from me, at the user end in the rapidly expanding town of Daventry, that...

Michael Fallon | 470 c1733-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I am grateful for the wide support that the...

Stephen Hammond | 470 c1735 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support my hon. Friend's point, having been a councillor in Merton before being elected to...

Michael Fallon | 470 c1734 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that that is true. The hon. Gentleman makes a helpful point. I am well aware of Cambridge ...

David Howarth | 470 c1734 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way and, even more, for bringing forward the Bill, which I ver...

Michael Fallon | 470 c1734 (Link to this contribution) That is very encouraging evidence indeed.

Michael Fallon | 470 c1736 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to refer too much to private meetings, but yes, the House should know that I have had ...

Robert Key | 470 c1736 (Link to this contribution) My own council has a problem that I am sure is common to many rural councils. Does my hon. Friend th...

Michael Fallon | 470 c1735 (Link to this contribution) The House has just heard the voice of Merton, and my hon. Friend fully supports the position that I ...

Peter Ainsworth | 470 c1735-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing the Bill, which, as he knows, has support on both sides...

Subjects

Construction Climate change Housing Energy Planning Standards Renewable energy

Legislation

Planning and Energy Bill 2007-08

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