Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: UKEF unveils plans to help exporters win £12.5 billion in new business by 2029Found: UKEF is aiming to support £10 billion in financing for clean growth sectors in the next five years, building
Special Report Apr. 30 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: by; the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) UK and indeed globally there are so many democracies and communities that face internal polarisation - Speech Link
2: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun have been active in some communities in Stoke-on-Trent, radicalising - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Technological innovations have created further challenges in maintaining cohesive communities. - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) When people play with the building blocks of civic society, words, institutions, basic concepts and shared - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) Friend’s family were responsible for building many of them in the not-too-distant past. - Speech Link
Asked by: Regan, Ash (Alba Party - Edinburgh Eastern)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is the case that, from 1 April 2024, fossil fuel and biofuel heating systems will not be permitted in newbuild construction; whether, in addition to oil and gas heating systems, (a) log boilers and (b) solid fuel and woodburning stoves have been banned, and, if so, what assessment it has made of any impact that this may have on (i) rural economies, (ii) resilience for properties during periods of power cuts and (iii) energy costs for properties.
Answered by McAllan, Màiri - Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition
The New Build Heat Standard (NBHS)means new homes and buildings constructed under a building warrant (applied for on or after 1 April 2024) will not be allowed to use any fixed direct emission heating systems like oil and gas boilers and bioenergy.
The NBHS does not apply to the installation of ‘emergency heating’. This is in direct response to feedback from rural communities and concerns about interruption of supply. This means that the NBHS permits fixed systems which may include woodburning stoves where this is justified.
New buildings are already required to meet high standards of energy efficiency which result in lower heat demand and can help reduce energy costs. Impacts of the NBHS on cost and on island communities were considered in the Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA) and Islands Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA) published alongside the regulations. These have been informed by consultation feedback and wider stakeholder engagement.
All impact assessments and accompanying research can be accessed at: New Build Heat Standard - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .
Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) plenty of examples of teachers and headteachers reporting that their school has had to evacuate the building - Speech Link
2: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab - City of Durham) that young people are interested in—not just for their health, but for the wider impact on their local communities - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) responsible for half the difference in healthy life expectancy between the most and the least affluent communities - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) The key things from our point of view—the building blocks—are there.Across the spectrum, how many businesses - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) It is now about what we are doing as a profession to start building back that capacity. - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) conversations probably significantly better than the rest of us on the prevalence of vapes in all our communities - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None perceived as challenging, but we use that as an opportunity to push boundaries through innovation and by building - Speech Link
2: None Nurses who work in our hospitals, as well as people who are out in our communities, are seeing people - Speech Link
3: None We want to build on our community wealth-building programme around emboldening, training and supporting - Speech Link
4: None Building on that, it is a matter of strengthening our communities and addressing the social and economic - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Halcro Johnston, Jamie (Con - Highlands and Islands) not spend a lot of their time using dangerous machinery, moving livestock or working on the top of a building - Speech Link
2: MacGregor, Fulton (SNP - Coatbridge and Chryston) Richard Leonard mentioned, there needs to be an end to blacklisting, which is still happening in the communities - Speech Link
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Scottish Government response to the report of the Independent Commission for the Land-based Learning ReviewFound: Similarly , the Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill is proposed as the way to progress
Laid - 30 Apr 2024 In Force 21 May 2024
This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/596) (“the GPDO”). The GPDO provides, for the purposes of section 59 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8), for the granting of permission for certain classes of development without the requirement …
Found: is a listed building, (o)the existing building, excluding any proposed extension under Class Q(b) but