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.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Martin Caton	08/10/2007	Gower	Labour	Proposed
Alan Whitehead	08/10/2007	Southampton, Test	Labour	Seconded
Peter Bottomley	08/10/2007	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Bob Russell	08/10/2007	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Kerry McCarthy	08/10/2007	Bristol East	Labour	Seconded
David Drew	08/10/2007	Stroud	Labour	Seconded
Lynda Waltho	08/10/2007	Stourbridge	Labour	Signed
Neil Gerrard	08/10/2007	Walthamstow	Labour	Signed
Andrew George	08/10/2007	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	09/10/2007	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Weir	09/10/2007	Angus	Scottish National Party	Signed
Mark Durkan	09/10/2007	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Ann Cryer	09/10/2007	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Paul Keetch	09/10/2007	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lynne Jones	09/10/2007	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Andrew Stunell	10/10/2007	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Battle	10/10/2007	Leeds West	Labour	Signed
Norman Baker	10/10/2007	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Austin	10/10/2007	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed
Ian Gibson	10/10/2007	Norwich North	Labour	Signed
Hywel Francis	10/10/2007	Aberavon	Labour	Signed
David Taylor	10/10/2007	North West Leicestershire	Labour	Signed
Paul Truswell	10/10/2007	Pudsey	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	10/10/2007	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Hywel Williams	10/10/2007	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Katy Clark	10/10/2007	Ayrshire North & Arran	Labour	Signed
Tim Farron	10/10/2007	Westmorland & Lonsdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Howarth	10/10/2007	Cambridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Williams	10/10/2007	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Hunter	10/10/2007	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Flynn	10/10/2007	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	10/10/2007	Burton	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	10/10/2007	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Clare Short	10/10/2007	Birmingham, Ladywood	Independent Labour	Signed
David Simpson	10/10/2007	Upper Bann	DUP	Signed
Christopher Huhne	10/10/2007	Eastleigh	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Iddon	10/10/2007	Bolton South East	Labour	Signed
Glenda Jackson	10/10/2007	Hampstead & Highgate	Labour	Signed
David Lepper	10/10/2007	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour	Signed
Peter Luff	10/10/2007	Mid Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Chris McCafferty	10/10/2007	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	10/10/2007	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Colin Challen	10/10/2007	Morley & Rothwell	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	10/10/2007	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	10/10/2007	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Elliot Morley	10/10/2007	Scunthorpe	Labour	Signed
Laura Moffatt	10/10/2007	Crawley	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	10/10/2007	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Dai Davies	11/10/2007	Blaenau Gwent	Independent	Signed
David Anderson	11/10/2007	Blaydon	Labour	Signed
Phil Willis	11/10/2007	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Desmond Turner	11/10/2007	Brighton, Kemptown	Labour	Signed
Gavin Strang	11/10/2007	Edinburgh East	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	11/10/2007	Heywood & Middleton	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	11/10/2007	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Paul Holmes	11/10/2007	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Pugh	11/10/2007	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Wiggin	15/10/2007	Leominster	Conservative	Signed
Betty Williams	15/10/2007	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Richard Benyon	15/10/2007	Newbury	Conservative	Signed
Peter Soulsby	15/10/2007	Leicester South	Labour	Signed
Virendra Sharma	15/10/2007	Ealing, Southall	Labour	Signed
Gregory Barker	15/10/2007	Bexhill & Battle	Conservative	Signed
Peter Ainsworth	15/10/2007	East Surrey	Conservative	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	15/10/2007	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Anne McIntosh	15/10/2007	Vale of York	Conservative	Signed
James Paice	15/10/2007	South East Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Dismore	15/10/2007	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	15/10/2007	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Daniel Rogerson	16/10/2007	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jo Swinson	16/10/2007	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Berry	16/10/2007	Kingswood	Labour	Signed
Mike Gapes	16/10/2007	Ilford South	Labour	Signed
Clive Efford	16/10/2007	Eltham	Labour	Signed
David Chaytor	16/10/2007	Bury North	Labour	Signed
Colin Breed	16/10/2007	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Joan Humble	16/10/2007	Blackpool North & Fleetwood	Labour	Signed
Jennifer Willott	17/10/2007	Cardiff Central	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Hammond	17/10/2007	Wimbledon	Conservative	Signed
Roger Williams	17/10/2007	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Thurso	17/10/2007	Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	17/10/2007	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Frank Dobson	17/10/2007	Holborn & St Pancras	Labour	Signed
Robert Smith	17/10/2007	Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Marsha Singh	18/10/2007	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	18/10/2007	Luton North	Labour	Signed
John Hemming	18/10/2007	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tim Yeo	19/10/2007	South Suffolk	Conservative	Signed
Harry Cohen	19/10/2007	Leyton & Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Martyn Jones	19/10/2007	Clwyd South	Labour	Signed
Diane Abbott	22/10/2007	Hackney North & Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed
Michael Jabez Foster	22/10/2007	Hastings & Rye	Labour	Signed
Frank Cook	22/10/2007	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Michael Connarty	22/10/2007	Linlithgow & Falkirk East	Labour	Signed
Doug Naysmith	22/10/2007	Bristol North West	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	22/10/2007	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Adrian Sanders	22/10/2007	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Gwyn Prosser	22/10/2007	Dover	Labour	Signed
Lorely Burt	23/10/2007	Solihull	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nick Ainger	23/10/2007	Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire	Labour	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	23/10/2007	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Levitt	23/10/2007	High Peak	Labour	Signed
Danny Alexander	24/10/2007	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Wood	24/10/2007	Batley & Spen	Labour	Signed
Joan Walley	24/10/2007	Stoke-on-Trent North	Labour	Signed
David Hamilton	24/10/2007	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Lembit	24/10/2007	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Mates	24/10/2007	East Hampshire	Conservative	Signed
Paul Rowen	25/10/2007	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Howard Stoate	25/10/2007	Dartford	Labour	Signed
Linda Gilroy	25/10/2007	Plymouth, Sutton	Labour	Signed
Frank Doran	25/10/2007	Aberdeen North	Labour	Signed
Colin Burgon	25/10/2007	Elmet	Labour	Signed
Edward O'Hara	25/10/2007	Knowsley South	Labour	Signed
Jacqui Lait	25/10/2007	Beckenham	Conservative	Signed
Eric Illsley	29/10/2007	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Alan Keen	29/10/2007	Feltham & Heston	Labour	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	29/10/2007	Gordon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Borrow	29/10/2007	South Ribble	Labour	Signed

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