Consultations
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Consultations
The consultations below are driven by various Government departments. Your views are invited on issues and your responses are used to contribute to the British Chambers official response to government on behalf of the national business community. This response forms a significant part of the process in shaping the Government’s final policy proposals.
Consultations are listed with earliest closing dates first:
Mersey Gateway
Cabinet Office
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
Department for Communities & Local Government
Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA)
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Department of Health (DoH)
Department for Transport (Dft)
Environment Agency
Food Standards Agency (FSA)
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
HM Treasury
HSE
Low Pay CommissionConsultations: Government Response
There are currently no major consultations relating to the Mersey Gateway
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
A Sustainable Construction Strategy
Starting Date: 30-07-07Closing Date: 30-11-07
The purpose of this Consultation is to help develop a Government / industry strategy on sustainable construction. The Consultation Document outlines proposals and seeks views on targets and ways in which the targets can be achieved
Energy white paper: meeting the energy challenge
URN No: 07/1006Energy is essential in almost every aspect of our lives and for the success of our economy. We face two long-term energy challenges:
- tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions both within the UK and abroad; and
- ensuring secure, clean and affordable energy as we become increasingly dependent on imported fuel.
The White Paper sets out the Government’s international and domestic energy strategy to respond to these changing circumstances, address the long term energy challenges we face and deliver the Government’s four energy policy goals:
- to put ourselves on a path to cutting CO2 emissions by some 60% by about 2050, with real progress by 2020;
- to maintain the reliability of energy supplies;
- to promote competitive markets in the UK and beyond;
- to ensure that every home is adequately and affordably heated.
It shows how the Government are implementing the measures set out in the Energy Review Report in 2006, as well as those announced since, including in the Pre-Budget Report in 2006 and the Budget in 2007.
For details on Consultations announced in the Energy White Paper: Meeting the Energy Challenge, which are listed below, visit the BERR website.
Planned Future Consultations
Supplier Obligation – call for evidence
Launch: summer 2007, alongside the White PaperElectricity: Emergency Planning
Launch: 20 August 2007Respond by: 23 November 2007
Purpose: to update the electricity priority user arrangements in the extremely unlikely event of a widespread electricity disruption.
CoRWM Implementation
Launch: 25 June 2007
This consultation is listed on this page under DefraEnergy Services Directive 2006/32/EC Article 6
This consultation is listed on this page under Defra – Department for Environment Food and Rural AffairsDistributed Generation (licensing)
Launch: autumn 2007UK Regulation of CCS
Launch: later in 2007CO2 from Cars
Launch: later in 2007Code for Sustainable Homes
Launch: by the end of 2007
Department for Communities & Local Government
Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007
Published 19 October 2007
Closing date 11 January 2008This consultation paper sets out proposals for amending the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/293) in England to take account of two judgments of the European Court of Justice in May 2006. These require that where development consent comprises a multi-stage process e.g. outline planning applications, EIA can be required before approval of reserved matters. The Regulations will also apply to conditions attached to full planning permissions which do not permit development until the submission of certain detailed matters and their approval by the planning authority.
Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA)
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.Department for Culture, Media and Sport
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
Defra - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Consultation on recycling targets for packaging for 2008 and thereafter
This consultation paper is presented by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government.It discusses the overall recovery targets, overall recycling and material-specific recycling targets for packaging waste. It reviews the existing UK targets for 2008 to assess whether they will deliver the targets in the EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste that the UK has to meet by 31 December 2008.
The consultation also reviews the existing targets in place for 2009 and 2010 and proposes new targets up to 2012.
This consultation will close on Friday, 30 November 2007.
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
Department for Transport (Dft)
Towards a Sustainable Transport System
This report contains an outline of a DfT consultation programme in 2008 (see pages 78 to 80).
If you have any comments please email policy@liverpoolchamber.org.uk
Dee River Basin District 'Summary of Significant Water Management Issues' Consultation
This consultation runs from 24 July 2007 to 24 January 2008
North West River Basin District 'Summary of Significant Water Management Issues' Consultation
This consultation runs from 24 July 2007 to 24 January 2008No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
No consultations have been selected. You are advised to visit the respective Government website for additional information.
Consultations: Government Response
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
DTI Consultation on Safety Zones – Government Response
(Of particular interest to the Maritime Sector)
Implementing the provisions of the Energy Act 2004 relating to the establishment of safety zones around offshore renewable energy installations
April 2007Department for Work & Pensions (DWP)
Personal Accounts: A new way to save
The Government published a summary of responses to the consultation on ‘Personal Accounts: A new way to save’ on 14 June 2007.
View the closed consultations for 2007
View the consultations archive.
Please note, these are only a selection of UK consultations.Government Departments are used as the source unless otherwise stated.
