Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 31 January 2013.
Simon Hughes
Deputy Leader, Liberal Democrats
9:30,
31 January 2013
I welcome greatly the launch of the green deal and hope it will be successful. Will the Minister ensure that, among others, the chambers of commerce and all trade federations are informed about the green deal directly, and that all local authority libraries also contain the information?
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