Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will fully fund the (a) replacement and (b) operation of fire service end-of-life national resilience assets; and if she will make a statement.
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to fund the cost of (a) a fire service pensions remedy and (b) the second options exercise for part-time workers in fire services; and if she will make a statement.
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to (a) add to the Local Government Finance Settlement the one-off grants that fire authorities receive for pensions and post Grenfell funding in protection services, (b) reinstate the Firelink grant when it comes to an end from the Home Office while Fire Services continue to incur the costs the grant is...
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide additional funding to fire and rescue services to help enable them to achieve net zero by 2050; and if she will make a statement.
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment of (a) nuclear, (b) fire and (c) other safety risks on board the Vanguard nuclear fleet the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator has made; and if he will make a statement.
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what investigation he has undertaken into the fire on board HMS Victorious; when that fire occurred; what scale it was categorised as; what (a) injuries, (b) radiation hazard and (c) risk to the reactor resulted from it; what the cost of repairs was; what steps he plans to take in response to the fire; and if he will make a statement.
Caroline Lucas: ...of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to incorporate the building safety grant agreed following phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry into the base funding provided to fire and rescue services; and if she will make a statement.
Caroline Lucas: ...national emergency, there are real questions about how seriously the Government are taking it and how prepared they are. They seem to be turning up with a watering can when what we need is a giant fire hose. Will the Minister say exactly how many Cobra meetings on the heat emergency the Prime Minister has missed, and why? What practical support have the Government offered to the NHS, care...
Caroline Lucas: ...A new UN report published in April warned that human activities have already altered 70% of the Earth’s land surface, degrading up to 40% of it. The truth is that our only home is not only on fire, but being bulldozed before our very eyes. That is why COP15 must agree a framework not just to halt biodiversity loss by 2030, but to reverse it. Our world desperately needs a nature-positive...
Caroline Lucas: ...billion in subsidies since signing the Paris agreement in 2015 alone. This Bill was an opportunity for the Government to change course, but instead they have chosen to double down and to play with fire by bringing forward a Bill that is plainly incompatible with a safe future. It is patently obvious that the Government should amend the Bill to ensure that oil and gas profits are taxed...
Caroline Lucas: ...sinister banning orders are nothing new, and have time and again been labelled disproportionate. In response to a previous iteration of such orders, Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary and fire and rescue services, and even the Home Office, issued the same warning about their impact on people’s ability to take part in protest. Her Majesty’s inspectorate stated: “It is...
Caroline Lucas: ...move on. I have more than 1,000 constituents living in dangerous homes. They need guarantees that issues other than cladding will be covered in the Building Safety Bill, whether that means missing fire breaks, compartmentation, defective fire doors, wooden balconies or other construction defects. They need to know that they will not have to wait years for that to happen. They need...
Caroline Lucas: ...has referred to other legal channels that may be available, but can he tell me clearly now what reassurance there is for leaseholders who are not facing cladding problems but are facing other fire defects? Will the legal protections that he is offering extend to them?
Caroline Lucas: ...carbon and cushion us from shocks such as flooding, is our biggest ally in the fight against climate breakdown. It is therefore shocking that just weeks before the start of COP26, more than 100 fires have been reported on England’s peatlands. They are a vital carbon store, and it is environmental vandalism to set fire to them right now. The climate and nature emergencies are two sides...
Caroline Lucas: ...a fund that, this time last year, the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee found to be seriously lacking, and it falls far short of the estimated £15 billion needed to address all fire safety defects, not just combustible cladding, in every high-risk residential building. The problem goes even deeper, however, and is equally about the current height and product-based...
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average increase in insurance premiums for leaseholders since the identification of fire safety deficiencies following Grenfell Tower tragedy in June 2017; what recent discussions his Department has had with (a) insurance providers and (b) other relevant stakeholders on protecting...
Caroline Lucas: ...(a) has had and (b) plans to have with representatives of freeholders on mitigating eviction risk to leaseholders in dispute on liability for remedial work and associated costs in relation to fire safety concerns, where leaseholders state an intention to withhold payments to freeholders until the dispute is resolved; and if he will make a statement
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Her Majesties Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services report, Getting the Balance Right, an inspection of how effectively the police deal with protests, published on 11 March 2021, what plans she has to undertake a public consultation on the legislative proposals on the policing of protests in Part 3...
Caroline Lucas: ...planning range of actions for which the UK has preparations in place for responding to a maritime accident involving radioactivity entrained into an atmospheric plume generated by a shipboard fire to (a) mitigate and (b) reduce (i) the environmental impact and (ii) down-stream exposure and public health impact of those radioactive materials to (A) ship crew, (B) oil rig staff, (C) other...
Caroline Lucas: ...democracy. To vote for the “treaty undercut” clauses in this group is not to provide a safety net, as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster desperately suggested yesterday. Instead, it is to fire a cannon ball through the safety net of democratic principle. By contrast, new clause 1 gives MPs the opportunity to demonstrate the immovable principle that it is outrageous for any Prime...
