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Wera Hobhouse Excerpts
Tuesday 23rd May 2023

(1 year, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amanda Solloway Portrait Amanda Solloway
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This Government have a commitment to ensure that everybody is treated fairly, especially when it comes to the discounts and relief schemes. We have legislated to make sure that landlords pass on the payments they receive; if they do not, there is a way of redressing that by going through gov.uk.

Wera Hobhouse Portrait Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD)
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ChargePoint, one of the largest UK charging networks, worries that the Government’s local EV infrastructure fund will replicate the mistakes of the past, where electric charge points were put into lamp posts and bollards where people with non-electric vehicles park, therefore losing valuable electric charging. Will the Government ensure that the LEVI fund is targeted at local authority assets such as swimming pools and libraries, where people will often go, therefore increasing EV charging capacity?