Climate Change
There have been votes in Parliament on targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions and on increasing the proportion of electricity generated via renewable means as well as on the establishment of a UK Green Investment Bank, to invest in projects which, for example, reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Grant Shapps generally voted against measures to prevent climate change
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On 20 Feb 2024:
Grant Shapps voted rejecting a climate change test for new oil and gas licences - requiring new licences to be compatible with the latest IPCC report on limiting warming to 1.5 C.
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On 4 Dec 2023:
Grant Shapps voted yes on Draft Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes Order 2023
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On 10 Jan 2022:
Grant Shapps voted in favour of laws enabling the government to direct funds from electricity consumers, via electricity suppliers, to help pay for, and encourage private investment in, new nuclear power stations.
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On 13 Dec 2021:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Subsidy Control Bill — Schedule 1 — The Subsidy Control Principles — Net Zero Greenhouse Gasses Emissions Target
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On 3 Nov 2021:
Grant Shapps voted in favour of laws enabling the government to direct funds from electricity consumers, via electricity suppliers, to help pay for, and encourage private investment in, new nuclear power stations.
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On 20 Oct 2021:
Grant Shapps voted to exempt national security and defence as well as taxation and spending from those policy areas where ministers would be required to have due regard to environmental policy.
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On 7 Jun 2021:
Grant Shapps voted not to make supporting reducing the United Kingdom's net targeted greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 the initial core mission of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency
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On 26 May 2021:
Grant Shapps voted not to ban the burning of certain types of vegetation in almost all upland areas with peat soils in England.
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On 26 Jan 2021:
Grant Shapps voted not to require public authorities to act in accordance with the following principles in relation to the environment: preventative action to avert damage; the precautionary principle; rectifying damage at source and "polluter pays".
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On 13 Jan 2021:
Grant Shapps voted not to require the Financial Conduct Authority to have regard to the target of reducing UK greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2050 when setting capital and risk related requirements for investment firms.
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On 16 Nov 2020:
Grant Shapps voted not to seek to ensure any regulations on the subject of climate change risk which apply to those running certain occupational pension schemes align with the aims of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner and limiting the global average temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
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On 12 Oct 2020:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Agriculture Bill — New Clause After Clause 42 — Contribution of Agriculture and Associated Land Use to Climate Change Targets
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On 29 Sep 2020:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on United Kingdom Internal Market Bill — New Clause 6 — Climate and Nature Emergency Impact Statement as Prerequisite for Financial Assistance
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On 3 May 2016:
Grant Shapps voted not to reduce the permitted carbon dioxide emission rate of new homes.
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On 14 Mar 2016:
Grant Shapps voted against requiring a strategy for carbon capture and storage for the energy industry.
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On 14 Mar 2016:
Grant Shapps voted against setting a decarbonisation target for the UK within six months of June 2016 and to review it annually thereafter.
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On 26 Oct 2015:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Finance Bill — Clause 42 — Vehicle Tax — Relation to Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Surcharge for Vehicles Costing Over Forty Thousand Pounds
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On 8 Sep 2015:
Grant Shapps voted to apply the Climate Change Levy tax to electricity generated from renewable sources.
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On 14 Jul 2015:
Grant Shapps voted in favour of the Summer 2015 budget which, among other measures, increased the minimum wage, replaced student maintenance grants with loans and cut tax credits.
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On 14 Jul 2015:
Grant Shapps voted to apply the tax on non-domestic electricity supplies known as the climate change levy to electricity generated from renewable sources.
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On 4 Dec 2013:
Grant Shapps voted against allowing carbon dioxide emissions limits to be set in respect of existing stations which fit pollution abatement equipment.
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On 4 Jun 2013:
Grant Shapps voted against requiring the setting of a target range for the amount of carbon dioxide (or other greenhouse gases) produced per unit of electricity generated.
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On 4 Jun 2013:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Energy Bill — Third Reading
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On 3 Jun 2013:
Grant Shapps voted not to exempt electricity generation plants using carbon capture and storage technology from annual carbon dioxide emissions limits during a commissioning and proving period of up to three years.
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On 19 Dec 2012:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Energy Bill — Decline Second Reading
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On 17 Oct 2012:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — New Clause 22 — UK Green Investment Bank — Duty to Support Climate Change Act Targets
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On 17 Oct 2012:
Grant Shapps voted in favour of establishing a Green Investment Bank, strengthening copyright law relating to commercialised works, encouraging employment disputes to be settled outside of tribunals, and other business related reforms.
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On 11 Jun 2012:
Grant Shapps voted in favour of establishing a Green Investment Bank, strengthening copyright law relating to commercialised works, encouraging employment disputes to be settled outside of tribunals, and other business related reforms.
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On 28 Oct 2008:
Grant Shapps voted yes on Climate Change Bill — Third Reading (and other amendments)
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On 9 Jun 2008:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Climate Change Bill — Second Reading
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On 24 Jun 2019:
Approve: Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order 2019
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On 18 May 2022:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Programme for Government — Workers' Rights — Cost of Living — Climate — Benefits — Windfall Tax — Devolution — Human Rights
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On 23 Nov 2021:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Health and Care Bill — Third Reading
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On 14 Jul 2021:
Grant Shapps voted for NHS reforms and reorganisations intended to ensure integration and coordination both within the NHS and between the NHS and local councils as well as to make virginity checking and hymen reconstruction an offence.
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On 14 Jul 2021:
Grant Shapps voted for NHS reforms and reorganisations intended to ensure integration and coordination both within the NHS and between the NHS and local councils as well as to make virginity checking and hymen reconstruction an offence.
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On 5 Feb 2020:
Grant Shapps voted not to call on the Government to develop and implement a plan to eliminate the substantial majority of transport emissions by 2030.
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On 24 Oct 2019:
Grant Shapps voted against a motion calling on the Government "to rebuild the economy so that it works in the interest of the many, not just handing out rewards to those at the top" and bring forward "a green industrial revolution to decarbonise the economy and boost economic growth".
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On 25 Jun 2019:
Grant Shapps voted to exclude wind and water turbines from a special reduced rate of VAT applying to the supply and installation of energy-saving materials in residential accommodation.
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On 6 Sep 2016:
Grant Shapps voted to allow the Treasury to increase VAT on the installation of energy saving materials.
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On 9 May 2016:
Grant Shapps voted against reducing the permitted carbon dioxide emission rate of new homes and instead requiring a review of minimum energy performance requirements.
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On 4 Jun 2013:
Grant Shapps voted against allowing financial incentives for small-scale low-carbon generation of electricity to be paid to plants which were previously too big to be eligible.
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On 14 Sep 2011:
Grant Shapps voted against requiring landlords of private rented homes to make their properties meet regulations on energy efficiency by January 2016 rather than April 2018 as initially proposed.
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On 21 Oct 2009:
Grant Shapps voted to call on the Government to sign up to the 10:10 campaign
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On 28 Oct 2008:
Grant Shapps voted to give the Government powers to set greenhouse gas performance standards on power stations
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On 28 Oct 2008:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Climate Change Bill — International aviation and shipping emission projections — rejected
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On 28 Oct 2008:
Grant Shapps voted yes on Climate Change Bill — Report on the civil estate
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On 2 Jun 2008:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Planning Bill — National Planning Policy Statement To Include Policies Which Help Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change
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On 30 Apr 2008:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Energy Bill — Renewable energy feed-in tariff — rejected
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On 8 May 2007:
Grant Shapps was absent for a vote on Climate Change — new sense of urgency — rejected
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