Extracts from Lords debate on Net-Zero Carbon Emissions - Apr 21
Thursday, 22 April 2021 07:48
Baroness Sheehan (LD):...To play their essential role in meeting
the net-zero target, local authorities must be adequately funded.
When grant schemes such as the green homes grant are suddenly cut
off, that really hurts not just local authorities but local
businesses and jobs. With £2.1 billion of EU structural funds cut
off after Brexit, it behoves the Government to seamlessly put in
place their successor scheme. We are heading towards the end of
April 2021, and still there is no sign of...Request free trial
(LD):...To play their essential role in meeting the net-zero
target, local authorities must be adequately funded. When grant
schemes such as the green homes grant are suddenly cut off, that
really hurts not just local authorities but local businesses and
jobs. With £2.1 billion of EU structural funds cut off after
Brexit, it behoves the Government to seamlessly put in place their
successor scheme. We are heading towards the end of April 2021, and
still there is no sign of the promised consultation on the shared prosperity fund When can we
expect it? Also, when will the Government issue the sovereign green
bond, announced by the Chancellor in the House of Commons last
November? Can the Minister confirm that, when set up, it will be
able to make loans to local authorities?
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department
for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ()
(Con):...In response to the points made by the noble
Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, I can tell her that the
Government are currently consulting on a bottle deposit return
scheme for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. With regard to the
UK shared prosperity fund a point
raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Sheehan, I can say that the 2020
spending review sets out the main strategic elements of the UK SPF
in the heads of terms, and the Government will shortly publish a
UK-wide investment framework later this year and confirm the
multiyear spending profiles at the next spending review...
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