SOLAR POWER IN SILVERTOWN

Early day motion 167, tabled 24 June 1997 by Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour). Signed by 46 members.

That this House congratulates Peabody Trust, the capital's largest housing association providing homes for 27,000 Londoners, for its joint initiative with Greenpeace on a benchmark solar project which has furnished three terraced home in Silvertown in London's docklands with completely solar-powered resources; notes that each house is expected to save a third of its electricity bills a year - around ú60 - resulting not just in savings for people on low incomes but also helping to protect the climate by utilising a safe and clean renewable resource; and calls on the Government to re-direct the monies currently spent supporting the fossil fuel industry in the United Kingdom to provide capital grants for a national solar programme to deliver a minimum of 50,000 solar-powered homes by 2010.

Signatures by party: Labour 32, Liberal Democrat 10, Plaid Cymru 2, Conservative 1, Labour/Co-operative 1.