Iain Wright: ...system by ensuring that new communities are located and designed in a way that reduces the need for travel and makes best use of low-carbon and renewable energy. In addition, since October 2007, a stamp duty land tax exemption for zero carbon homes has been in place, so that houses can act as an incentive for developers to build zero carbon homes. We will also shortly introduce new minimum...
Andrew George: ...RSLs for example—will be making representations to Government, and they would be greatly strengthened if the HCA itself endorsed the concerns of those agencies. An example is the manner in which stamp duty applies to shared equity properties. In many parts of the country when such a property is purchased, the contribution of the occupant is well below stamp duty level but they still have...
Lord Bassam of Brighton: ...insert "an Integrated Transport Authority or". (3) For subsection (6)(bb) substitute— "(bb) an Integrated Transport Authority for an integrated transport area in England;". 10C In section 134(1) (duty to act in certain cases as body engaged in commercial enterprise) after "any area which is" insert "an integrated transport area or". 10D (1) Section 137 (machinery for negotiation and...
Jane Kennedy: The stamp duty land tax relief for new zero carbon homes can be claimed using the stamp duty land tax return, which contains a specific code for this tax relief. HM Revenue and Customs is therefore able to monitor the number of claims and the amount of relief given. HM Treasury has access to these data in an aggregated form. The Valuation Office Agency does not collate information in respect...
Eric Pickles: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many homes, according to HM Revenue and Customs stamp duty land tax return records, have claimed the zero rate of stamp duty on zero carbon homes.
Malcolm Wicks: ...certificates (ROCs) which they sell and electricity which they export; there is a reduced rate of VAT on microgeneration technologies; and homes meeting the zero carbon criteria are exempt from stamp duty up to £500,000. In addition to these, the renewables obligation is the Government's key mechanism for encouraging new renewable generating capacity. The RO is a market-based mechanism,...
Michael Wills: ...of the Department for Communities and Local Government. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs may collate statistics relating to homes qualifying for zero carbon tax relief through the monitoring of stamp duty land tax, following the introduction of the Stamp Duty Land Tax (Zero-Carbon Homes Relief) Regulations on 7 December 2007.
Eric Pickles: ...Communities and Local Government what (a) proportion and (b) number of first time buyers in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) England and Wales purchased properties in the three or four per cent. stamp duty band in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Lord Jones of Birmingham: ...are also exempt from income tax on any renewable obligation certificates (ROCs) which they sell and electricity which they export; and homes meeting the zero-carbon criteria are exempt from stamp duty up to £500,000. The renewables obligation is the Government's key mechanism for encouraging new renewable generating capacity. While this is not a fiscal incentive, electricity suppliers are...
Tim Loughton: ...the main branch in Lancing—the alternative branch, which will be the only Crown post office left serving that whole district. This is not a branch where somebody occasionally ambles in to buy a stamp and ambles out; it is a very busy, well-run sub-post office. The third branch, the Downlands sub-post office in east Worthing, is run by Michael and Rosemary Wilkins. That branch won the...
Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what proportion of first time buyers in England purchased properties in the three or four per cent. stamp duty band in each of the last three years.
Jim Shannon: ...through the Republic of Ireland supporters and players. To subject football to something that we have fought so hard to move away from is not the way forward. That is why it is the Assembly’s duty to stamp out sectarianism, even though it comes from the highest realms of FIFA. It is absolutely ridiculous that people who have no idea of the problems that we have overcome in this sport are...
Boris Johnson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) mean and (b) median values of stamp duty paid in (i) England, (ii) South East England and (iii) London by (A) first time buyers, (B) all other house purchasers and (C) all house purchasers were in the last 12 months.
Mark Prisk: ...Government's deciding all that later on, but without a full debate here in the Chamber. I have to say to the Minister that that is an appalling way to legislate. When he was at the Treasury, the stamp duty land tax was introduced in the same haphazard way. The general message from the then Chief Secretary was, "We'll correct it along the path." We are being asked to agree to a tax on...
David McLetchie: ...interred, and we should look to other taxes that might more appropriately be assigned to the Parliament—for example, taxes that are more likely to be decreased than increased. One such tax is stamp duty, a reduction in which would support our desire to help people on to the rungs of the home ownership ladder. Another is excise duties, as there is little prospect of a Scottish Government...
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Yvette Cooper: ...highest standards of sustainability. The development as a whole (including all homes) should reach zero carbon and should use the standards set out in the Code for Sustainable Homes as a guide. The stamp duty relief for new zero carbon homes will also act as a financial incentive to the industry. The building and construction industry are also represented on the 2016 task force which was...
Alistair Burt: ...at their failure. I know what my constituents who are looking for houses would like. They would like the houses that would be built under a Conservative Government and they would like a stamp duty policy that would help them get some of them. That is it for the discussion of targets. Under Labour— [interruption.] The hon. Member for Luton, South (Margaret Moran) should listen. Her...
Stamp duty 32 (1) Stamp duty is not to be chargeable— (a) on a transfer scheme in the case of which the transferor and each transferee is a public body, or (b) on an instrument certified by the Secretary of State to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs as made for the purposes of such a transfer scheme, or as made for purposes connected with such a transfer scheme....
Alban Maginness: I am slightly confused. Yesterday, and for part of today, some Members wanted to turn the Assembly into the Supreme Soviet in order to rubber-stamp a draft Budget. The Chamber is intended for parliamentary debate, and it is the duty of all Members to scrutinise and criticise where necessary. The SDLP will do that, as will our colleagues in other parties. To characterise us as being against...