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Local Election Survey 2018 – Candidates

We’re surveying candidates in Greater Manchester for the 2018 election. Find out more about the survey.

Below is a summary of the responses across the areas of Greater Manchester. Where a candidate has already responded, you can see their response. If your candidates haven’t yet responded, follow the Twitter link to ask them to!

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Name
Mark Alcock
Party
Liberal Democrats
City/Borough
Rochdale
Area
Balderstone and Kirkholt

Question 1
Climate Change
Do you agree that Greater Manchester should adopt the Tyndall Centre’s science-based carbon budgets, set targets to halve the region’s emissions in the next five years and become carbon neutral by 2038?

Yes

We have to do all we can to make our future abetter and heathier one for all of us.

Question 2
Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Do you agree that the Greater Manchester Pension Fund should fully divest from fossil fuels in the next five years?

Yes



Question 3
Walking and Cycling
Will you support your local council allocating funding to implement the walking and cycling (active travel) measures contained in Chris Boardman's ‘Made to Move’ report?

Yes

The school run causes 38% of peak time traffic volumes and the resulting increase in childhood asthma and the resulting hospitalisations and deaths. anything we can do to reduce this and in the process make people healthier we must promote.

Question 4
Air Quality
Will you call on your local council to introduce ‘parking exclusion zones’ around local schools at peak times?

Yes

I think we should have these ASAP as will make around schools safer and the air cleaner for everyone.

Question 5
Biodiversity
Will you support a ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in your local council area and work to phase out the use of other pollinator-harming pesticides?

Yes

As a councillor in South Ribble I stopped the council using the highly toxic weed killers that were known to have killed many pets that we knew of and the many other animals and I have campaigned to stop weed killers getting into the water supply and slowly killing us all.

Question 6
Plastics
Will you support the phase-out of single-use plastics in your local authority by 2020?

Yes

When a councillor in Oldham I led in the campaign to be the greenest council in AGMA and made a good start until labour retook control and green went out the window again, I took out all plastic water dispenser's and replaced with water fountains across the council buildings it wa cost neutral but great in being clean and green. I also id lots of other green things across AGMA as chair of the AGMA environment commission. my former group leader said this on my retirement amongst others: Cllr Howard Sykes, Way before Generation Oldham, Mark was First Generation Oldham as he has a proud record of working to make our Council and our Borough greener. He introduced greener vehicles for the Council workforce, replaced environmentally damaging mineral water on Council premises with water fountains served by mains supply, and oversaw improvements in the use of water, electricity and gas in all Council buildings. These all made a major contribution to reducing our carbon footprint and the cost to rate payers. At AGMA (the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities), he served as Chair of the Environment Commission bringing in significant additional Government money for electric charging points, research into insulating the thousands of solid walled homes that we have, introducing a fibre optic programme across the Greater Manchester authorities and a host of other green initiatives.

Question 7
Aviation
Will you support the introduction of a cap on emissions from flights to and from Manchester Airport?

Yes



Question 8
Energy Efficiency
Do you support the introduction of a GM-wide building standard for all new developments to be zero-carbon and climate resilient?

Yes

I've been pushing for this since I was 1st on South Ribble BC and have always tried through the planning process to achieve this aim.

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