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Measures To Encourage Use Of Renewable Energy Technologies In New Developments

EDM number 2048 in 2006-07, proposed by Martin Caton on 08/10/2007.

That this House supports the Merton Rule, initiated by Merton Council, requiring all new developments to include measures to generate at least 10 per cent. of their energy through on-site renewable energy technologies where viable; notes that some 140 councils are following this example; further supports existing government Planning Policy Statement 22 (PPS 22), which urges that local planning authorities should consider the opportunity for incorporating renewable energy projects in all new developments; further supports the views expressed by the Minister for Housing and Planning in the House on 8th June last year that `it is essential that all authorities should follow this example' and that `the Government expects all authorities to include policies in their development plans that require a percentage of energy in new developments to come from on-site energy'; further supports the views of the same Minister in a letter to the Sustainable Energy Partnership dated 2nd October that `the Rule has acted as a real incentive to provide local renewable energy and cut carbon emissions'; is therefore very concerned that the latest draft of the Climate Change PPS to be published shortly undermines the Rule by requiring councils to avoid authority-wide blanket requirements for on-site renewable energy, thus preventing them from applying it to all new developments; and therefore calls on the Minister to ensure that the proposed weakening of PPS 22 does not appear in the final published Climate Change PPS.

This motion has been signed by a total of 119 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Martin Caton08/10/2007GowerLabourProposed
Alan Whitehead08/10/2007Southampton, TestLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley08/10/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Bob Russell08/10/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Kerry McCarthy08/10/2007Bristol EastLabourSeconded
David Drew08/10/2007StroudLabourSeconded
Andrew George08/10/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard08/10/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Lynda Waltho08/10/2007StourbridgeLabourSigned
Lynne Jones09/10/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Paul Keetch09/10/2007HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer09/10/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Mark Durkan09/10/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Michael Weir09/10/2007AngusScottish National PartySigned
John Leech09/10/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Clare Short10/10/2007Birmingham, LadywoodIndependent LabourSigned
David Simpson10/10/2007Upper BannDUPSigned
Christopher Huhne10/10/2007EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Iddon10/10/2007Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson10/10/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
David Lepper10/10/2007Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Peter Luff10/10/2007Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Chris McCafferty10/10/2007Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell10/10/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John McDonnell10/10/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt10/10/2007CrawleyLabourSigned
Elliot Morley10/10/2007ScunthorpeLabourSigned
Annette Brooke10/10/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Campbell10/10/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Colin Challen10/10/2007Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
Michael Clapham10/10/2007Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Janet Dean10/10/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Paul Flynn10/10/2007Newport WestLabourSigned
Hywel Francis10/10/2007AberavonLabourSigned
Ian Gibson10/10/2007Norwich NorthLabourSigned
John Austin10/10/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Norman Baker10/10/2007LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
John Battle10/10/2007Leeds WestLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell10/10/2007Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor10/10/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Paul Truswell10/10/2007PudseyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis10/10/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Hywel Williams10/10/2007CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Katy Clark10/10/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Tim Farron10/10/2007Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
David Howarth10/10/2007CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Williams10/10/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter10/10/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh11/10/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Holmes11/10/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn11/10/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin11/10/2007Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Gavin Strang11/10/2007Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Desmond Turner11/10/2007Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Phil Willis11/10/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
David Anderson11/10/2007BlaydonLabourSigned
Dai Davies11/10/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Elfyn Llwyd15/10/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Anne McIntosh15/10/2007Vale of YorkConservativeSigned
James Paice15/10/2007South East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Andrew Dismore15/10/2007HendonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington15/10/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Peter Ainsworth15/10/2007East SurreyConservativeSigned
Gregory Barker15/10/2007Bexhill and BattleConservativeSigned
Bill Wiggin15/10/2007LeominsterConservativeSigned
Betty Williams15/10/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Richard Benyon15/10/2007NewburyConservativeSigned
Peter Soulsby15/10/2007Leicester SouthLabourSigned
Virendra Sharma15/10/2007Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Joan Humble16/10/2007Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSigned
Colin Breed16/10/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
David Chaytor16/10/2007Bury NorthLabourSigned
Clive Efford16/10/2007ElthamLabourSigned
Mike Gapes16/10/2007Ilford SouthLabourSigned
Roger Berry16/10/2007KingswoodLabourSigned
Jo Swinson16/10/2007East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Dan Rogerson16/10/2007North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Smith17/10/2007West Aberdeenshire and KincardineLiberal DemocratSigned
Frank Dobson17/10/2007Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Mike Hancock17/10/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Thurso17/10/2007Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Williams17/10/2007Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Hammond17/10/2007WimbledonConservativeSigned
Jennifer Willott17/10/2007Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Marsha Singh18/10/2007Bradford WestLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins18/10/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
John Hemming18/10/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Martyn Jones19/10/2007Clwyd SouthLabourSigned
Harry Cohen19/10/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Tim Yeo19/10/2007South SuffolkConservativeSigned
Gwyn Prosser22/10/2007DoverLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders22/10/2007TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson22/10/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith22/10/2007Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Michael Connarty22/10/2007Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Frank Cook22/10/2007Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster22/10/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Diane Abbott22/10/2007Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Tom Levitt23/10/2007High PeakLabourSigned
Alistair Carmichael23/10/2007Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Ainger23/10/2007Carmarthen West and South PembrokeshireLabourSigned
Lorely Burt23/10/2007SolihullLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Mates24/10/2007East HampshireConservativeSigned
Lembit 24/10/2007MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton24/10/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
Joan Walley24/10/2007Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Mike Wood24/10/2007Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Danny Alexander24/10/2007Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyLiberal DemocratSigned
Jacqui Lait25/10/2007BeckenhamConservativeSigned
Edward O'Hara25/10/2007Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Colin Burgon25/10/2007ElmetLabourSigned
Frank Doran25/10/2007Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Linda Gilroy25/10/2007Plymouth, SuttonLabourSigned
Howard Stoate25/10/2007DartfordLabourSigned
Paul Rowen25/10/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley29/10/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Alan Keen29/10/2007Feltham and HestonLabourSigned
Malcolm Bruce29/10/2007GordonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Borrow29/10/2007South RibbleLabourSigned

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