VoteClimate: Quality in the Built Environment - 13th December 2017

Quality in the Built Environment - 13th December 2017

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Quality in the Built Environment.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-12-13/debates/269117C2-3473-47A7-BCC7-6A0DF0F0D870/QualityInTheBuiltEnvironment

17:15 Tony Lloyd (Rochdale) (Lab)

I will finish on a couple of issues. The hon. Member for Henley said that he does not want to see little boxes. We have to do something about the space standards. There is a consultation out, and I say to the Minister that we have to bring that to a conclusion. Secondly—this will be my concluding point—we know that we are not hitting our targets for moving to carbon neutrality by 2050. Probably 1 million homes in this country will be retrofitted to those carbon standards. The Committee on Climate Change said that it should be something like 4 million over the same period. I say to the Minister that the Government have now got to do an awful lot more.

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