Housing Minister Mark Prisk recently unlock a multi-million pound government fund to deliver up to 15,000 extra affordable homes. Affordable housing providers in England will be able to bid for a share of up to £225 million to deliver the additional new homes. Last week (27 February 2013) Mr Prisk launched a bidding guidance for the [...]
Offshore wind innovation has today been given a real boost with the announcement of the first three winners under the second call of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Technology Strategy Board’s (TSB) Offshore Wind Component Technologies Development and Demonstration scheme, and the launch of a fourth round of this competition. [...]
The results of a considerable cabinet reshuffle have been announced today. Andrew Lansley has been replaced as Health Secretary by Jeremy Hunt, Chris Grayling replaces Ken Clarke as Justice Secretary and Transport Secretary Justine Greening is moved to another role, which has prompted a reaction from commentators. Mr Hunts move is actually a promotion, despite [...]
There have been reports that the Conservative party have been making calls to reconsider the policy which currently opposes the development of a third runway at Heathrow airport. This policy was agreed by the coalition government when they came into power in 2012. Tim Yeo, Tory MP has been very vocal in his belief that [...]
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published estimates of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 2010, revealing less than 3% of UK local authorities managed to reduce their carbon emissions in 2010. The statistics mean a reversing of improvements seen in the previous year. It shows that emissions on an end-user basis have [...]
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