2 Peter Swallow debates involving the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Oral Answers to Questions

Peter Swallow Excerpts
Tuesday 12th November 2024

(1 week, 4 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sarah Jones Portrait Sarah Jones
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We are ambitious to create all the jobs that we want to see in the green technologies of the future. I would be very interested to hear more about what the hon. Gentleman has to say. The Climate Change Committee estimates that up to 750,000 net jobs could be created by 2030. Opposition Members have decided that they do not support that path. The question is: why are they objecting to all these new jobs that we will be creating across our country?

Peter Swallow Portrait Peter Swallow (Bracknell) (Lab)
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10. What steps he is taking to introduce a warm homes plan.

Sadik Al-Hassan Portrait Sadik Al-Hassan (North Somerset) (Lab)
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13. What steps he is taking to introduce a warm homes plan.

Miatta Fahnbulleh Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Miatta Fahnbulleh)
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We are committed to an ambitious warm homes plan, which will upgrade homes across the country, making them warmer and cheaper to run, by installing new insulation and rolling out low carbon heating such as solar and heat pumps. As a first step, the Government have committed an initial £3.4 billion over the next three years towards upgrading homes. We have already hit the ground running with the roll out of our warm homes local grant, and our warm homes social housing fund. We will set out more details in due course.

Peter Swallow Portrait Peter Swallow
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Too many of my constituents are living in poorly insulated social housing. New mother Dionne, for instance, had the insulation from her flat removed last year by her social landlord because it was full of mould and mildew. She is now facing her second winter without insulation. Will the Minister confirm that the warm homes plan will introduce tough new standards to ensure that social housing providers get on and insulate their housing stock?

Miatta Fahnbulleh Portrait Miatta Fahnbulleh
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Yes, absolutely. Raising standards in the social housing sector will be a critical part of our warm homes plan. We have already announced plans to lift 1 million renters out of fuel poverty by raising the minimum energy efficiency standard in both the private and the social-rented sector, which will ensure that renters no longer have to live in cold, drafty homes. We will also unlock £1 billion-worth of investment to the national wealth fund in partnership with leading banks to upgrade more social homes, and we will set out more detail to build on that in due course.

Clean Energy Superpower Mission

Peter Swallow Excerpts
Thursday 18th July 2024

(4 months, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Peter Swallow Portrait Peter Swallow (Bracknell) (Lab)
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Last week Bracknell Forest council held a climate change summit, bringing together local businesses, schools and community organisations in my constituency to engage in discussions about how best to face the challenges of climate change. Does the Secretary of State agree that communities are crying out to take part and to be engaged in the clean energy transition?

Ed Miliband Portrait Edward Miliband
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Again, I congratulate my hon. Friend. He raises an important point that we have not touched on: the role of citizens in this change. My sense is that, while of course there are specific planning issues that people raise about their own communities, the view of many citizens in our country is, “What can I do? What difference can I make?” I think the Government need to do a better job of answering that. That is not nanny-statism, to reassure the Conservatives, but public information about the difference people can make in this incredibly important cause.