Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Clive Betts and Grahame Morris

Thursday 4th September 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Clive Betts (Sheffield South East) (Lab)]

10. What steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.

[Grahame M. Morris (Easington) (Lab)]

16. What steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (Amber Rudd)]

Over 750,000 homes were improved under the green deal and ECO between January 2013 and June 2014, and we are on track to meet our target of improving the energy efficiency of 1 million homes by March 2015. A further 20,000 homes could be improved under the green deal home improvement fund, which has a pipeline of work over the coming months. In the longer term, we are providing certainty for the market through the extension of ECO until 2017 and up to £120 million of funding in each of the next two years for future schemes.

Breast Cancer Screening (Young Women)

Debate between Clive Betts and Grahame Morris

Tuesday 30th November 2010 Westminster Hall

[Grahame M. Morris]

On best practice and targeting available resources, the figures suggest that in some areas, as many as one third of women within the target group aged 50 to 70 do not attend routine screenings. There are various reasons for that. It might have to do with misconceptions about the nature of the screening test. In some urban areas, it might have to do with the fact that there is a large transient population. In my area, where we also have the problem of people failing to turn up for routine appointments, they may be reluctant or poorly educated, or a number of—

[Mr Clive Betts (in the Chair)]

Order. Interventions are meant to be brief.

[Grahame M. Morris]

I apologise. The Minister will see the point that I am trying to make.