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Written Question
Housing: Construction
Monday 5th November 2018

Asked by: Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the reasons are for the continued development of new buildings which are not carbon neutral.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

New buildings have to meet high energy performance standards, which help saves energy bills as well as carbon. The Clean Growth Strategy said that the Government would consult in 2019 on an uplift to the Building Regulations energy efficiency standards where safe, practical, cost-effective, and affordable.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Nov 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State says that local councils will see real-terms increases in their budgets. If so, why is Derbyshire County Council planning for £70 million of cuts, on top of the £260 million of cuts already made, and cutting the terms and conditions of its lowest-paid workers in school …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Nov 2018
Budget Resolutions

"We see the impact of all those cuts in Derbyshire, where elderly people are not receiving care packages, early help for children is being cut and libraries are threatened. Does my hon. Friend agree that the cuts are actually contributing to long-term growth in the numbers of older people in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Sep 2018
Gypsies and Travellers

"The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case, largely about local authority sites. In Buxton, in my constituency, Irish-heritage Travellers could not get on to the local car park and instead invaded the car park of a local business. They proceeded to spend several days there, threatening the staff and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Sep 2018
Gypsies and Travellers

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Sep 2018
Gypsies and Travellers

"I was going to ask for that, rather than interrupt the hon. Gentleman’s speech...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Sep 2018
Gypsies and Travellers

"I want to echo many of the sentiments that have been expressed tonight, but from the point of view of my constituents and of a local business in Buxton that suffered the incursion of a group of Travellers this summer, as I mentioned earlier. That was the first time that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Jul 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"9. What the timetable is for his Department bringing forward proposals to prevent the sale of new houses by leasehold. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Jul 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Last year the then Secretary of State promised that by the summer the Government would make concrete proposals for banning the sale of new leasehold homes, yet they are still being sold in my constituency. The buyers thereof are unable to sell their homes and are also unable to afford …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 May 2018
Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill

"I am sure that my hon. Friend, like me, welcomes the fact that tenants who have suffered domestic abuse will be offered secure tenancies, but does she share my concern about evidence given to the Work and Pensions Committee that when local authorities apply to the Department for Work and …..."
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