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Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords] (1 Jun 2009)

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ...'s activities in that area of public policy. That absurdity is highlighted and reinforced by the title of the Bill. Others have mentioned it, but it is worth repeating. It is the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill. Let us forget for the purposes of my remarks the aspect of the Bill to do with construction and concentrate on whether it will produce or encourage...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Eco-Towns (10 Feb 2009)

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ...Affairs what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials have had with (i) Ministerial colleagues and (ii) officials in the Department of Communities and Local Government on the siting of proposed eco-towns on land with environmental stewardship status.

Business of the House: Employment, Universities and Skills and Housing (8 Dec 2008)

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:57:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ...Reading prison— [Interruption.] I am in danger of taking myself too seriously. However, it is important that constituency Members visit prisons in their own constituencies; otherwise, the issue becomes a closed book and we invent public policies on criminal justice that are wholly inept and incapable of dealing with the problems that we face. I have two prisons in my constituency. I want...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Eco-towns (18 Nov 2008)

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ...Rural Affairs what studies his Department has commissioned into the suitability of the Co-operative Wholesale Society's Stoughton Farm Estate in Harborough for horticulture as part of its work on eco-towns.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-Towns: Expenditure (15 Sep 2008)

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department spent on the eco-town policy and its implementation in each of the last three years for which figures are available; how much it has spent on the policy and its implementation in relation to the Pennbury site in each such year; and what its planned expenditure on the eco-towns policy is (a) in relation...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-towns: Public Participation (7 Jul 2008)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to her Department's YouGov poll on eco-towns, how many people were questioned; how those questioned were selected; where those questioned lived; what questions they were asked; and from which socio-economic groups they were drawn.

Topical Debate: Eco-towns (19 Jun 2008)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:25:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ...that he has just set out to the site in my constituency—the Co-operative Wholesale Society calls it Penbury, but everyone else calls it Stoughton—the Government would simply not plonk a town of 40,000 people down in the middle of rural Harborough. The sustainable urban extension idea, which he mentioned, is a good one. Where does the county council suggest that such an extension should...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-towns: Leicestershire (18 Jun 2008)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when (a) she, (b) the Housing Minister and (c) officials in her Department (i) have visited and (ii) plan to visit the proposed eco-town site in Harborough; and which officials have already visited the site.

Points of Order (9 Jun 2008)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:14:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ..., during business questions, I asked the Leader of the House whether she could persuade the Minister for Housing to come to the House to initiate a debate, or make a statement, on the Government's eco-town policy. The Housing Minister perhaps heard half of what I said, because she appeared on "Newsnight" on Friday night to address what she no doubt thought was the nation. Are there any...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-Towns: Planning Permission (6 Jun 2008)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government against which criteria the application for an eco-town at Kingston-upon-Soar in Nottinghamshire was assessed; in which of these areas the application was deemed inadequate; and if she will make a statement.

Business of the House (5 Jun 2008)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:32:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: Will the Leader of the House ensure that next Thursday's topical debate is on the Government's eco-town policy and that the Minister for Housing condescends to come to the House to be cross-examined by Members about her policies? So far the Minister for Housing has not answered a single debate. We have had two Adjournment debates—one that I was granted on 29 January and one granted to my...

[Mr. Eric Martlew in the Chair] — Eco-towns (3 Jun 2008)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:22:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ...probably put together in the previous 24 hours—the wonders of computer printing now enable Departments to do such things. The document's intellectual content—particularly as it relates to the eco-site in my constituency, which the developers call Pennbury—demonstrates to all of us in my constituency that this is a pretty shoddy process. The process did not, however, begin on 3...

Business of the House (22 May 2008)

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:32:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ...for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) for a debate on the Corston report as soon as possible? May I also draw to the attention of the Leader of the House the parlous state of the consultation process on eco-towns that is going on—or rather, not going on—at the moment? In my own constituency, the Government apparently intend to build a town twice the size of Market Harborough in the middle of...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-Towns (9 May 2008)

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in what regard her Department's (a) policies and (b) public service infrastructure requirements for eco-town sites differ from the requirements for development at sites which are not designated as eco-towns.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-Towns: Council Tax (9 May 2008)

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will commission research on the likely effect of eco-towns on levels of council tax over the next 25 years for (i) residents of the local authority areas in which each of the proposed 15 eco-towns is situated and (ii) residents of all adjacent local authority areas.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-Towns: Leicestershire (23 Apr 2008)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much and what proportion of the area within Harborough District that is proposed to be occupied by the eco-town promoted by the Co-operative Wholesale Society and English Partnerships is currently used for (a) agricultural and (b) airport transport purposes; and how much of that area is covered by (i) in use and (ii)...

Points of Order (3 Apr 2008)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:22:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: ..., Mr. Speaker. Just now, my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) and I both raised with the Leader of the House the absence of a statement from the Minister for Housing about eco-towns. There may be all sorts of reasons why a Minister does not come to the House to make a statement, and I appreciate that it is up to the Government to decide which Ministers come to give...

Business of the House (3 Apr 2008)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:32:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: My right hon. Friend the shadow Leader of the House asked the Leader of the House for a debate on eco-towns, following this morning's announcement. Surely it would have been even more appropriate for the Minister for Housing to have come to the House today to make a statement. This morning at 5 minutes to 9, I was invited to take part in a conference telephone call along with a large number...

Eco-Town (Harborough) (29 Jan 2008)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:08:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: I am grateful to the Minister for giving way; I know that he is short of time. Would it not be better to adopt the default position that eco-towns should go where people want them, and where local authorities are asking for them, rather than the other way round?

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Members: Correspondence (23 Jan 2008)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Harborough of 20 December 2007 on the eco-town proposal in Harborough.