Did you mean planning bill consultation 2003?
Arlene Foster: I beg to move That this Assembly agrees that the UK Parliament should consider amendments to the Energy Bill to provide powers for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to establish a scheme to facilitate and encourage renewable generation of heat, including the administration and financing of the scheme. We are here today to consider extending primary legislative powers for...
Lord Howell of Guildford: ...has been a dazzling debate full of expertise. I congratulate my noble friend Lady Hooper on instigating a valuable debate on the overseas territories. A lot has happened since the previous one in 2008 and it is certainly right that we should mobilise some of our collective expertise. It is right as well for the Government to make their comments, which I shall seek to do in a moment, on the...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach: ...debate this important group of amendments at this time of night. I do not really want to rush but I am mindful of the time. It is interesting that the amendments contain the workplace of me and the Bill team. This is certainly an area in which we are and have been much engaged. I hope that all noble Lords will understand that it is rarely possible to deliver everything. There are some...
Alex Easton: No. The Ulster Unionists canvassed with the Conservatives for the £4 billion cut at Westminster and seem to forget about that conveniently when the difficult decisions have to be made. The Health Minister, as late as only last Tuesday, proposed the Health and Social Care (Reform) Bill. What is interesting about that Bill is that it is good because it is getting rid of bureaucracy and...
Anna Lo: ...to try to veto the amendment is a total abuse of power. As an MLA for South Belfast for the past four years, I have supported many residents and residents’ associations in their dealings with the Planning Service. The majority of those residents have told me that they have endured serious detrimental effects in their residential and conservation areas for many years because of...
Lord Young of Norwood Green: ...national institutions is therefore a momentous step by any standard, as I am sure all noble Lords appreciate, whether or not they support this move. We on these Benches will ensure that the Bill receives the line-by-line scrutiny at which this House excels in order to gain greater clarity and provide greater assurance for the future. It is a pity that the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral,...
Richard Benyon: .... Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr Turner) on securing this debate and I also congratulate his constituents on what is really a remarkable project. It is great to hear about this ambitious plan, which has the potential to be an exemplar for sustainable development in action. Just last week, my Department announced our plans for mainstreaming sustainable development across...
Greg Clark: ...pragmatism is entering the Opposition party. I will reflect on all of the amendments now, but because they are technical, I undertake to go away, and consider each of them for later stages of the Bill. Amendment 246 would amend section 55 of the Planning Act 2008 by specifying that developers and applicants had to comply only substantially with the requirements contained in the Act. The...
Daithí McKay: ...in the Department’s funding, which we should bear in mind. I see merit in an approach that enables the Department to use regulation-making powers already available under the Climate Change Act 2008. Therefore, I propose to redraft the Bill to incorporate additional provision specific to the North and to the 2008 Act. As I said, a number of existing clauses can be removed from the Bill,...
James Clappison: ...about the possible location of an incinerator on a site in Harper lane. That is actually within the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for St Albans (Mrs Main), who is in her place and is planning to intervene in this debate, but the plan considerably affects my constituents, particularly those in the community of Radlett. Waste management is a matter for Hertfordshire county...
Greg Clark: ...reflect on what my hon. Friend has said and try to ensure that there is the greatest possible confidence in the adherence to those conditions. We are determined to introduce reforms in the Localism Bill. I look forward, as I am sure my hon. Friend does, to the day when it is passed. However, provided that the national policy statements on energy are designated as we expect, we anticipate...
Jack Dromey: ...making a similar point about the importance of the totality of interests within the region being properly accommodated and about working together for a strategic approach. The need for strategic planning, based upon all those examples, is overwhelming. The provisions for it in the Bill, however, are woefully inadequate, and elements border on the incompetent. Our approach carries support...
Lord Howell of Guildford: ...GDP and mean another 5 million jobs across Europe by 2020. Also, if we make a 20 per cent improvement on energy efficiency by 2020, that could significantly reduce the pressure on household bills. A single market in energy is good for jobs, competition and energy security, so practical co-operation with the rest of Europe on this is firmly in our national interest. The Council agreed that,...
David Cameron: ...to 0.8% of European GDP and mean another 5 million jobs across Europe by 2020. If we make a 20% improvement on energy efficiency by 2020, that could significantly reduce the pressure on household bills. A single market in energy is good for jobs, competition and energy security, so practical co-operation and competition with the rest of Europe on this is firmly in our national interest....
Christopher Huhne: ...now registered. However there is room for improvement. I am concerned about the impact of super-size solar installations. I am also disappointed at the lack of farm-based anaerobic digestion plants currently accessing FITs. In light of the economic and fiscal situation, inherited by the coalition, it is imperative that we take a more responsible and efficient approach to public subsidy,...
Jeremy Purvis: ...the rates that businesses in Scotland pay. In advance of today, we have consistently raised concerns about the lack of transitional relief for businesses that saw a massive increase in their rates bills as a result of the revaluation last year. Some hotels and by no means large businesses in my constituency and throughout Scotland saw increases in their bills of up to 200 per cent and...
Simon Burns: ...services, we know that something has gone very wrong. That is why the coalition Government will act, act now and act with determination to improve and modernise our national health service. The Bill will create an NHS that puts patients first, that frees clinicians to deliver the best and most innovative care they can, and that focuses on what matters most to patients-health outcomes. This...
Richard Lochhead: The Reservoirs (Scotland) Bill will introduce a new regime to better protect the people of Scotland from the risk of flooding from reservoirs. In recent years, incidents at reservoirs here and in other countries have led us to review Scotland’s legislative framework for reservoir safety. For instance, in August 2008, a near failure of the dam at the Maich fishery in Renfrewshire required...
Charles Hendry: ...address them. The figures for fuel poverty, which have been set out by the hon. Member for Islwyn, make it clear that the situation in Wales is worse than in much of the UK as a whole. From 2005 to 2008, the number of households in fuel poverty rose from 2.5 million to 4.5 million, and it is estimated by many organisations that today's figure is probably 5 million, so it has doubled over...
Jonathan Edwards: The Localism Bill has received a great deal of attention in England because of its supposedly radical intent. It has received slightly less attention in Wales, as the parts of the Bill that are currently relevant to Wales might not be relevant by the time it receives Royal Assent later this year. That is because of the referendum on the powers in part 4 of the Government of Wales Act 2006...