Results 1-20 of 203 for climate change speaker:John Healey

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Planning Permission (21 Jul 2009)

John Healey: These concerns are addressed through our national series of planning policy statements and guidance; in particular through Planning Policy Statement 1 and its supplement on climate change, Planning Policy Guidance Note 13 on transport and Planning Policy Statement 22 on renewable energy. More detailed guidance is available on our website at: www.communities.gov.uk

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Planning Policy Statement (Coastal Erosion) (20 Jul 2009)

John Healey: I am today publishing a consultation on proposals for new Planning Policy on Development and Coastal Change, and I am placing copies of the consultation in the Library of the House. Coastal communities have historically adapted to the changing coastline as sea levels have risen steadily since the end of the last ice age. However, on the basis of the latest projections provided by UKCP09(1),...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Rented Housing: Carbon Emissions (20 Jul 2009)

John Healey: ...the first homes built to Code level 6 (zero carbon achieved on-site or via private wire); the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) Carbon Challenge programme aims to accelerate the home building industry's response to climate change by building homes that reach Code level 6. Four new communities are planned which will together provide around 1,700 zero carbon and highly sustainable homes....

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Eco-towns and Zero Carbon Homes (16 Jul 2009)

John Healey: Yesterday, the Government published their "Low Carbon Transition Plan". To respond to the challenge of climate change, we need to become a low-carbon country, achieving an 80 per cent. reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. We must also meet the challenge to build more homes, so that everyone has a decent secure and affordable home. To deliver both we need to change the way that we...

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Planning (14 Jul 2009)

John Healey: ...about nationally significant infrastructure to be taken in a way that is fairer and faster. This is vital to our economic, environmental and social wellbeing, including meeting the challenge of climate change, strengthening the voice of communities and individuals, and creating the conditions for future economic success.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Pennbury Eco-town (7 Jul 2009) has video

John Healey: ...to meet two needs: first, the need for new homes, including those that people can afford to rent; and secondly, the need to build our homes in future in a way that helps us tackle the threat of climate change. Given that more than a quarter of the total carbon emissions in this country come from homes, that is something that we simply must do.

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Local Authority Leaseholders (7 Jul 2009) has video

John Healey: It is indeed important in tackling climate change, but I am disappointed that the hon. Gentleman cannot see that these proposals are a step in the right direction. I shall take his comments as an early representation and submission to the consultation.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Energy (23 Jun 2009)

John Healey: ...and help with financing new measures through initiatives such as Decent Homes, the Landlords Energy Saving Allowance, and the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target supplier obligation scheme. The Department of Energy and Climate Change will be establishing feed-in tariffs in 2010 and the Renewable Heat Incentive in 2011, to incentivise uptake of low carbon and renewable heat and energy...

Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]: Housing (9 Jun 2009) has video

John Healey: ...ownership and shared equity since 1997 and that demand for HomeBuy remains high; believes that the Government's zero carbon homes policy is a ground-breaking contribution to the fight against climate change; notes that planning policy makes clear the need for more family homes and that the Government is reviewing the evidence on garden development; notes that the highest rate of housing...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Business Rates (21 Apr 2009)

John Healey: Although an Impact Assessment is not required where a predetermined formula, such as the rate of inflation, changes the rate of a tax, the Government have recognised that managing cash flow is a key concern for businesses in the current economic climate. This is why the Chancellor announced on 31 March that businesses will be allowed to pay just 2 per cent. of the RPI-linked 5 per cent....

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Business Rates (10 Feb 2009)

John Healey: ...faced with the prospect of empty premises, no fee income from tenants and an eventual liability for empty rates on that property. To conclude, the Government understand that in the current economic climate, it could be harder for businesses that are faced with significant unexpected backdated rates bills to discharge their liabilities. Therefore to reduce the cash flow impact on businesses...

Bill Presented: Local Government Finance (4 Feb 2009) has video

John Healey: ...Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt). Let me start by reassuring him that I am keeping a close eye on the preparations for 1 April and the new unitary authorities in Bedfordshire. Like him, I want the change to be successful and in the interests of all Bedfordshire residents. If he has a particular concern about the plans for schools, I will happily discuss it with him later, as he asked me to....

Retrospective Business Rates (28 Jan 2009)

John Healey: ...hon. Members and some commentators have criticised the VOA for backdating the effect of the ports review to the beginning of the list on 1 April 2005, but that is not its decision. The date of the change is governed by legislation. If the property existed before April 2005, by law, the rates must be backdated to the beginning of that list period. In that way, the system tries to ensure...

Orders of the Day: Clause 5 — National policy statements (24 Nov 2008) has video

John Healey: ...extends the requirement that the Secretary of State is required to lay before Parliament a statement setting out her response to a Committee of this House or of either House. I turn now to climate change, a subject of strong debate throughout this House's scrutiny of the Bill. A number of my hon. Friends have strongly championed a strengthening of the provisions—not least my hon....

Orders of the Day: Clause 5 — National policy statements (24 Nov 2008) has video

John Healey: ...Bill in both Houses, that issue has been subject to detailed parliamentary debate and scrutiny. However, even in the months since we first published the Bill, we have seen economic circumstances change dramatically. We have seen the effect of instability in the world energy markets, and it has never been so evident. That has concentrated minds still further on our national need for new...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Planning: Departmental Cooperation (30 Oct 2008)

John Healey: The Planning Bill, together with the Energy Bill and Climate Change Bill is a key part of the Government's strategy to accelerate the UK's transition to a low carbon economy and enable us to meet the challenge of climate change. The Bill's provisions for nationally significant infrastructure were developed jointly with the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department...

Deferred Division: Schedule 7 — Repeals (25 Jun 2008) has video

John Healey: ...must increase the power we generate from renewable resources and we aim to see that at a level of 20 per cent. by 2020. We must secure water supplies for a growing population with an increasingly changing climate, and we must improve the major transport systems to support jobs and economic growth in this country for the future. We know that to get major investment for such major...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 8 — Parliamentary requirements (2 Jun 2008) has video

John Healey: ...be no debate or resolution on a particular national policy statement in either House. Very few Members on either side of the House have been more consistent or committed as advocates of action on climate change than my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew). He is right to say that we should not be debating this in isolation. There are links to the Energy Bill, to the prospective...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 8 — Parliamentary requirements (2 Jun 2008) has video

John Healey: But the interlinking of the provisions of this Bill with the provisions of the Climate Change Bill was precisely his point and precisely my point. Instead of replicating or duplicating, the power of the provisions in the Climate Change Bill will bite hard on Ministers and on central Government but will not bite in the same way on local authorities. It is therefore reasonable and right to look...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 8 — Parliamentary requirements (2 Jun 2008) has video

John Healey: ...appraisal, parliamentary scrutiny or public consultation that national policy statements require under the Bill, it is their responsibility to put in place measures to ensure that that is changed. If no national policy statement is formally designated and in place, the IPC cannot decide on a major application. It could examine the application, but it would be for the Secretary of State to...