Reaching Net Zero: Local Government Role

I totally agree. The hon. Lady pre-empts what I will say later in my speech. The competitive proc...

I congratulate the hon. Member on securing the debate. Manchester City Council has prioritised re...

I absolutely agree. We need councils to spread their wings and deliver, but they cannot if they d...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. In my area, St Albans City and District Co...

I congratulate my hon. Friend’s local authority on getting that amount of money, which is obvious...

The reality is that we also have to talk about scale. York wants 73,000 heat pumps and 22,000 new...

We all need to grasp the enormity and scale of what needs to be done. The ambition of central Gov...

Large-scale funding is required to address the scale of the challenge facing local areas when it ...

I agree; I could not have put it better myself.

Let me return to the grants, which are curr...

I am grateful that the hon. Lady is recognising the problems around funding, but also around regu...

Indeed. Again, the hon. Lady pre-empts me; I will come to that point in a minute. Local authoriti...

Another issue that needs to be addressed is that of skills. We simply do not have the skills supp...

Indeed. We need a Government who understand how this all fits together. We cannot retrofit homes ...

Order. Although I hesitate to interrupt the hon. Lady, I hope that she will soon be concluding, b...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I took many interventions, but I understand that you want me to ...

Councils are indeed well placed to help communities get to net zero, and they need to lead from t...

I hope that the hon. Lady will soon talk to the leader of her district council and get some answe...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. While I fully acknowledge some of the concerns about ...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) on securing this debate and on the email ...

I knock on a lot of doors all the time—not just at local elections—and although not many people m...

Ironically, the huge windmills that we see generating renewable electricity, because of the metho...

The right hon. Gentleman will know that we tend to have a crisis every winter, but increasingly w...

I do not want to get into the argument, because I know that you, Mr Deputy Speaker, would probabl...

I do not regret sending the right hon. Gentleman an invitation to participate in the debate, beca...

No, I do not, and nor does the evidence, which shows that the number of people who have died in e...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson). I say that becau...

The hon. Member is making a powerful case, and I very much agree with the point she is making abo...

The hon. Member is absolutely right. I remember my child saying to me, “Mummy, it’s really quite ...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate, and I commend the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) ...

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee’s report on this topic in October 2021 ma...

I call Kerry McCarthy to respond for the Opposition.

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We know that the Government’s plan to reach net zero is totally inadequate; that is the context f...

I celebrate all local councils’ work to reach net zero. I appreciate that the hon. Lady is going ...

I thank the hon. Lady for that, although she has eaten into about 30 seconds-worth of my saying n...

I welcome the opportunity to debate this incredibly important issue. I thank all hon. Members fro...

On the issue of planning, as an example, does the Minister accept that the Government need to giv...

I will come on to talk in a bit more detail about all the Government’s plans, but we are confiden...

I thank all Members across the Chamber for their contributions. Bar one, we are all agreed that t...