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Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Meters (16 Jul 2009)

Michael Fallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what further steps he plans to take to ensure that households with pre-payment meters are not charged more for energy than households without such meters.

Orders of the Day: Clause 3 — Short title and extent (9 May 2008) has video

Michael Fallon: ...way that is consistent with Government policies. That means that local authorities will no longer have to wait for a revision to the planning policy statement, for more detailed guidance, or for a change of Minister or—who knows?—of Government. They can now get on with implementing Merton-style policies with whatever speed they wish. That is important. If we are to engage our...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 3 — Microgeneration (9 May 2008) has video

Michael Fallon: .... The Bill provides that whatever a local authority does, it must be consistent with national policies. I am sure that the Minister will confirm that it is Government policy and part of the climate change planning policy statement that local authorities must consider viability. That is therefore one of the national policies to which they must have regard under the measure. I am slightly...

Orders of the Day: Planning and Energy Bill (25 Jan 2008)

Michael Fallon: ...of the House, but from those councils at the forefront of good energy practice, the Local Government Association and our energy industry, which is ready and willing to help meet the challenge of climate change. This is not a big Bill, but it does one important thing: it will enshrine in law, I hope, the so-called Merton rule, which I shall describe in more detail. Back in 2003, the London...

Orders of the Day: Planning and Energy Bill (25 Jan 2008)

Michael Fallon: ...progress today. As I have said, the Bill takes a different approach. The last Minister said that she backed local power schemes. The Bill backs local powers. If we are to meet the challenge of climate change, this cannot just be a matter for central Government. We need to have our local communities out in front, helping to meet that challenge. We are all in this together, and I urge the...

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (22 Mar 2006)

Michael Fallon: ...parts of the fiscal process since last year's Budget that the Chancellor did not mention today. In the middle of the existing financial year, the Chancellor rushed to the Treasury Committee to change the economic cycle's starting date. He then fiddled the end date of the cycle, and he also started to correct some of his mistakes in the pre-Budget report. The Committee had already warned...

Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill (13 May 2002)

Mr Michael Fallon: ...says that national insurance contributions are the most equitable method of funding, but how does he square that with the pre-Budget report of 1999, in which the Government said, in relation to the climate change levy and the reduction in employers' NI contributions: "This is consistent with the Government's policy of switching the burden of taxation from 'goods' like labour"?

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (23 Mar 2000)

Mr Michael Fallon: ...left them. They are striking out on their own. One striking characteristic of the Budget is that it contains the remedies for a number of mistakes that the Government had already made. The welcome changes on capital gains tax were reforms to the Chancellor's own reforms. It is his mess over the taper and retirement relief that, to some extent, his new proposals clean up. As for vehicle...

Orders of the Day — The Economy (24 Nov 1999)

Mr Michael Fallon: ...now concluded—they have implemented all their policies in a relatively benign economic environment. They inherited a sound economy from us, and they have been governing in a relatively benign climate ever since. They have set up a new monetary policy framework, but I am not yet convinced that it is the right framework. Even in good times, it has proved to be a peculiarly fussy...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (11 Mar 1999)

Mr Michael Fallon: ...from my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke). It was he who took the key decisions on interest rates and tight public spending, and who started to foster the climate of low inflation which, I suspect, lies behind some of the benign economic indicators. It is often said that Budgets that are cheered on the day disappoint six months later. I cannot recall one...

"Today" Newspaper (6 Jul 1987)

Mr Michael Fallon: ...of Today and turns it round so that it starts to make money, as he did with The Sunday Times, they will argue in a year or two's time that it must have been a going concern all along. It is only management, change of management, and the application of better management, business and marketing techniques that will turn the newspaper round. My noble Friend the Secretary of State did not...

Orders of the Day — The Economy (North-East) (24 Mar 1987)

Mr Michael Fallon: ...manufacturing was concentrated in large units employing 1,000 men or more, and too many of those men were doing semi-skilled or relatively unskilled work and were highly vulnerable to technological change. The commercial culture of the north-east was, I found, fundamentally conservative, risk-shy and anti-entrepreneurial, and so we suffered in our region more than other regions in England...

Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill: Repeals (4 Jun 1984)

Mr Michael Fallon: ...structure dominated by large businesses and heavy manufacturing industry. It lacks the service industries, research and development and new technology that the Government want to encourage. The changes proposed in the White Paper and the Bill are welcomed in the north-east—they have certainly been welcomed in the submissions on the White Paper that I have seen. Indeed, the changes...