Results 1-20 of 2,573 for speaker:Alan Whitehead
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Government Departments (11 Nov 2009)
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether he plans to take steps to encourage voltage optimisation on the Government estate.
- Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: I am sure that my right hon. Friend will agree that the investment in and strengthening of the grid and the emergence of new connection points is an essential part of delivering a renewable energy strategy, and of renewing other forms of energy in future. What plans are there in the documents he has published today to ensure that linear planning applications and associated applications can...
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Waste Disposal: Planning Permission (9 Nov 2009)
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many waste handling facility planning applications have been (a) approved and (b) rejected by local authorities since 2005.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Oil Fired Power Stations (9 Nov 2009)
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many tonnes of oil were burned to produce electricity in oil-fired power stations in the UK in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Oil Fired Power Stations (9 Nov 2009)
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many kilowatt hours of electricity were produced via oil-fired power stations produced in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008.
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: I have been both encouraged and dismayed by this debate. I was dismayed when the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) repeated, yet again, the canard that because not all scientists agree with everything about all aspects of climate change, the debate is uncertain, undecided and open. A consensus does not mean that everyone has to agree. As we can see in this Chamber,...
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: I know that my hon. Friend the Minister is very enthusiastic about the new economic world in which we will live, and I am sure that that will be displayed in her winding-up speech. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the idea of a low-carbon economy has been underlined by the Climate Change Act 2008 and the material that has been produced about the route to such an economy—indeed, I am...
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: I am listening to the hon. Gentleman's speech with interest. I very much agree with a lot of what he says about the changing commitment in China and the progress that has been made. However, does he have any figures on the number of local authorities in China that have turned down renewable energy applications? Assuming that he does not conclude that such applications are widely turned down,...
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that he might well have missed a hint of irony in my previous intervention.
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: More than a majority!
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: The right hon. Gentleman has read out a very short list, but does he accept that it would take several days to read out the list of people who have the opposite opinion about the science of climate change? Does he also accept that the whole idea of science is that it consists of hypotheses and disputes? There never is an absolute consensus, but is it not probably a good idea to take the...
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: It's because of people like you.
- Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video
Alan Whitehead: I agree with what the hon. Gentleman has said about additionality, but does he agree that additional money to make the Copenhagen agreement work should not be taken from existing UK aid budgets? Does he agree that the new money must be separate and clearly distinct, and that it should not put those aid budgets at risk?
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Energy (5 Nov 2009)
Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether his Department has a strategy to encourage voltage optimisation on the estate of local authorities.