Lisa Nandy: ...action to create jobs by investing in infrastructure. We badly need new schools, we badly need new homes and, in some areas, we badly need new hospitals. Constituencies like Wigan, where the construction industry has always been important to the local economy, need that investment, not just because we will get the buildings we need but because it will provide jobs and apprenticeships for...
Angela Eagle: ...that the blacklisting of trade union members may well still exist in our country. Blacklisting has ruined many lives and these changes could have some very dangerous implications, especially in the construction industry, where many are afraid to declare their membership of a trade union openly for fear of the repercussions.
Nicholas Boles: ...a £474 million fund for investment in the local infrastructure necessary to support housing and commercial development. Our investments to date are helping to bring forward new homes, boosting the construction industry and stimulating economic growth. Through the Growth and Infrastructure Act, we have enabled developers to request reconsideration of the affordable housing component of any...
Lord Davies of Oldham: ...than it was in 2010. That is not a recipe for success or for the development of our economy. That applies to schools policy and particularly to housing. After all, there should be investment in the construction industry to give some stimulus to the economy but, of course, the Government have done little about it. It is therefore not surprising that the noble Lord, Lord Cope, and the noble...
Rachel Reeves: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of subcontractors operating within the Construction Industry scheme who did not claim any deduction for the costs of materials, plant and equipment and provided only their own labour in each of the last five years.
Lord Selsdon: ...product because it was the only fire protection kit available. I then went into industry because of the new developments. These were the new plastics, which were suddenly to replace the whole of the construction industry. I learnt about polyurethane, formaldehyde, polytetrafluoroethylene, poly this, poly that. I would work on the shop floor without a mask, because when you are young you do...
Lord Deighton: ...of their recommendation, the Government would like to seek further views, especially from business, on devolving SDLT. In particular, the aim would be to understand the potential impacts on the construction industry and housing market given the populous border between Wales and England. Based on the outcome of this short and targeted consultation, the Government will make its response to...
Danny Alexander: ...of its recommendation, the Government would like to seek further views, especially from business, on devolving SDLT. In particular, the aim would be to understand the potential impacts on the construction industry and housing market given the populous border between Wales and England. Based on the outcome of this short and targeted consultation, the Government will make their response to...
Richard Benyon: ...such guidance to companies but supports the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP). WRAP'S 'Halving Waste to Landfill' commitment has helped to encourage waste prevention and recycling in the construction industry. WRAP is also developing a Plastics Action Plan with industry to promote increased recycling through a range of initiatives.
Michael Fallon: ...has been presented to Government to show that blacklisting is ongoing. There have been a lot of accusations, but we have not yet received any firm evidence that blacklisting continues, in the construction industry or elsewhere. We continue to urge anyone who has such information to get in touch with the appropriate authorities. Similarly I am not aware of any evidence that the Blacklists...
Gregg McClymont: ...products in a way that fits the public interest by encouraging saving—NOW: Pensions, bringing Danish expertise into the UK system; B&CE, with 70 years of experience of delivering pensions to the construction industry; and the NEST public-backed scheme, which is low-cost and not for profit. Those are entrants that the Minister, I have no doubt, praises and supports. Yet they will have to...
Michael Fallon: ...has fully committed to mandating the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) on all centrally funded projects by 2016. The collaborative Government/industry BIM Task Group, co-ordinated by the Construction Industry Council, is leading the implementation strategy. The BIM Task Group has established a number of work streams to support the roll-out of BIM across the industry sector and...
Nicholas Boles: ...fund in local infrastructure for stalled locally-supported, large scale housing sites and commercial development. Our investments to date are helping to bring forward new homes, boosting the construction industry and stimulating economic growth. In addition, the Growth and Infrastructure Act enables developers with any Section 106 agreement, irrespective of the date of signature, to apply...
Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to Construction 2025 Industrial Strategy: government and industry in partnership, published on 2 July 2013, what steps he is taking to improve standards in health and safety on smaller projects.
Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to Construction 2025 Industrial Strategy: government and industry in partnership, published on 2 July 2013, what additional support he plans to provide to businesses to help exploit the export potential of digital and building information modelling capabilities.
Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to Construction 2025 Industrial Strategy: government and industry in partnership, published on 2 July 2013, how much resource he plans to provide from UK Export Finance Services to major construction firms for the purposes of exporting.
Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to Construction 2025 Industrial Strategy: government and industry in partnership, published on 2 July 2013, what his expected timescale is for the development of a construction supply chain payment charter.
Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to Construction 2025 Industrial Strategy: government and industry in partnership, published on 2 July 2013, what protocols and standards he plans to bring forward regarding building information modelling.
Mark Hoban: ...employment structures and the transient nature of construction work, HSE is not able to routinely record information on the precise size of these firms. Table 1: Fatal injuries to workers in the construction industry(1) as reported to all enforcing authorities 2012-13(2) Great Britain Number Employees 27 Self-employed 12 Total workers(3) 39 Members of the public 5 ...
Don Foster: .... We will make local authorities aware of the provision in the Act to do this. To become an approved inspector local authorities will need to set up a trading company which can then apply to the construction industry council for approval as an approved inspector. Local authority companies would only be able to act as approved inspectors in England outside of their local authority...