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Peter Gibson Excerpts
Tuesday 18th April 2023

(1 year, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Grant Shapps Portrait Grant Shapps
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We have worked very hard on making sure that homes are insulated. We have just announced another £1 billion for the Great British insulation campaign, which makes £12.5 billion over this Parliament and into the next one for insulation. That is one reason why nearly half of homes are now insulated, whereas the figure when Labour was in power was only 14%.

Peter Gibson Portrait Peter Gibson (Darlington) (Con)
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I welcome the £12 million from the social housing decarbonisation fund and the home upgrade grant for Darlington, which will help cut heating costs and carbon emissions, and reduce fuel poverty for my constituents. May I invite the Minister to visit the fantastic Darlington economic campus, where some of his team are situated?