Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Grant Shapps and Linda Riordan

Monday 17th January 2011 Commons Chamber

[Grant Shapps]

That was an interesting pre-written question, which seems to have ignored what we have established from the Dispatch Box today: that £650 million will lead to a 0% council tax rise in virtually every authority in the country. Although the hon. Gentleman says that that is of no consequence at all, I can tell him that for the pensioners in my constituency, his constituency and in those of my hon. Friends it will matter a great deal.

[Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax) (Lab/Co-op)]

6. If he will assess the effect on the economy of Halifax of reductions in levels of local authority employment.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Grant Shapps and Linda Riordan

Thursday 15th July 2010 Commons Chamber

[Grant Shapps]

I will gladly answer my hon. Friend, Mr Speaker.

The 90% threshold is subject to a simple referendum of the people in the local community, parish or village. The idea is that the judgment should be made through the ballot box by those who go to vote. The buildings themselves will be judged against the criteria of sustainability codes 1 to 6, and the sustainability levels that will be required will be exactly the same as those for all buildings by 2016.

[Mrs Linda Riordan (Halifax) (Lab/Co-op)]

Will Ministers tell me what steps they are taking to ensure that local government regeneration projects in Halifax will still go ahead now that Yorkshire Forward has been abolished? How will the Department address that shortfall?