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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: UK Low Carbon Transition Plan (15 Jul 2009)

Tim Yeo: I warmly welcome the Secretary of State's statement and the measures that he has announced. They are a sign that the Government are at last addressing the task of decarbonising Britain with the necessary urgency. In view of the importance of early progress towards what he has set out, does the Secretary of State accept that disentangling the effects of the recession on what will probably be a...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Tim Yeo: With the leave of the House, I should like to respond. I join the hon. Member for Morley and Rothwell (Colin Challen) in paying tribute to David Fleming's work on this subject. It is enormous and inspirational. I am grateful to my Committee colleagues for their contributions, support and warm words. I welcome the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker)...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Tim Yeo: I accept what the Minister says. I do not share the Minister's confidence—I am sure that it was not complacency—that Britain is doing enough. Time will tell. The Committee on Climate Change will take a view on that before long. I am simply anxious that, if we say, "We're on track", we shall soon be in for an unpleasant shock. I am also not sure that all her arguments against...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Tim Yeo: I welcome that last suggestion, and I shall continue to try to interest a private sector sponsor. I have only just embarked on that process. In conclusion, we are disappointed at the Government's reluctance to undertake more work immediately. We applaud, as the Committee did several times in public, some even quite unpopular measures being taken to encourage individuals to cut emissions. For...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Tim Yeo: I fully recognise that applying personal carbon trading to transport is vastly more complicated and vastly less attractive than applying it to the domestic energy sector, which is substantial, so it is worth making reductions in it. Transport can be dealt with more effectively in other ways. I acknowledge that trying to apply it to people who are driving around is almost certainly unworkable....

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Tim Yeo: I am grateful to you, Mr. Bercow. Being corrected will not prejudice my decision on Monday. Some of the objections that the Minister is raising to such a scheme could be dealt with.

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Tim Yeo: I welcome you, Mr. Bercow, to the Chair this afternoon. This is possibly the last time that you will chair a debate in Westminster Hall if you are called to higher things on Monday. As I have informed you, my vote in the first round is pledged to another hon. Member. However, your performance in the Chair this afternoon might sway a few floating voters to switch in your direction, so this...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Digital Britain (16 Jun 2009) has video

Tim Yeo: Does the Secretary of State agree that his statement leaves a question mark over the funding of Channel 4 in view of its contribution to the diversity of television and public service broadcasting in particular? Does he also agree that ensuring that Channel 4 has a reliable, independent income is an important aim? If the talks between Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide break down, or do not come to...

Business of the House: Standing Orders Etc. (Energy and Climate Change) (28 Oct 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: I rise to speak to amendment (a) in my name, but as there seems to be a larger than usual number of hon. Members in the House at 10.54 pm, I wish to make it clear to any who are not here for the purpose of speaking that I have no intention of pressing my amendment to a vote. I am happy to give that guidance. Members who venture outside will apparently encounter snow, which is proof that we...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 15 — Advice on emissions from international aviation and international shipping (28 Oct 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: I declare an interest that is in the register: I am a director of Eurotunnel, which provides a low-carbon transport route between Britain and the continent. I warmly welcome the Government new clauses that we are debating and the Government's acceptance of amendment No. 72, just as I welcomed the Bill on Second Reading in the summer. The Minister knows that, like me, the Environmental Audit...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 15 — Advice on emissions from international aviation and international shipping (28 Oct 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: I am glad to see the Minister nodding her assent. As I mentioned in my intervention, I also hope that the Government will lead the debate on how to accelerate a switch by the shipping industry to some of the more efficient, less polluting and more low-carbon methods referred to by my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer). Britain is a great maritime nation, and the...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 15 — Advice on emissions from international aviation and international shipping (28 Oct 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: The Climate Change Bill has been used as an example of British leadership in the field of climate change, and quite rightly so. Britain is a leading maritime nation, too. I believe that the shipping industry is also looking for a lead from the British Government, which at the moment it is not getting. Ships being ordered today have a 30-year life, so that takes us three quarters of the way to...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: I draw the House's attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests. It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Dr. Strang), whose work on the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is well known. I congratulate the Minister on his speech and on the way in which he handled a large number of interventions. He did so with the same courtesy...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: The results achieved by the Liberal Democrats at that time clearly show that they were regarded as freakish. This Bill is very important, and it should help to maintain Britain's international leadership of the climate change debate. That leadership was of course established originally by Baroness Thatcher in her famous speech almost two decades ago. She was the first Head of Government of...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: I am delighted to respond to the hon. Gentleman, who is a close and highly valued colleague on my Committee. I strongly support—and have consistently supported—a switch to much higher VED rates for new cars. That is a direct incentive when people replace their vehicle for them to switch to a low-carbon alternative. I believe that my Front-Bench colleagues share that position. We...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: On the question of the impact of the Bill on business, does my hon. Friend agree that one reason for supporting the Bill is that it may accelerate the process through which British companies decarbonise their products? It will quickly give us a competitive advantage if our companies offer low-carbon products and services compared with those produced in other countries. Market instruments and...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

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Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

Tim Yeo: I am interested in what the Minister said earlier about the targets. He knows that I strongly support the view that too much focus on the 2050 target runs the risk of not doing enough urgently. Will he seek the views of the Climate Change Committee specifically on the interim target and recognise that, although we could hit the 2050 target, we have no chance of staying within the 2° C...

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Biofuels (5 Jun 2008)

Tim Yeo: Belatedly, Mr. Amess, I wish to say how delighted I am to serve under your chairmanship, as you and I entered the House almost 25 years ago on the same day. This has been a useful debate. I am grateful to all hon. Members who have expressed their opinions about the Committee's report and congratulated the Committee on producing it. I am glad that a variety of opinions have been voiced; it...

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Biofuels (5 Jun 2008)

Tim Yeo: I am delighted that the Environmental Audit Committee's report on biofuels, written earlier this year, has been selected for debate this afternoon. I welcome the Minister to his place, and I look forward to debating the important and topical issues raised in the report. I am delighted to see two of my colleagues from the Committee here as well. Almost three years ago, the Environmental Audit...