Results 1-20 of 185 for speaker:Lord Tanlaw

Energy: Security and Prices — Question (28 Oct 2009)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, it is now possible to convert the world's oil shale deposits outside Russia into enough natural gas to meet energy needs for the next 200 years. Will the Government increase gas storage facilities to switch more coal-fired power stations to gas to maintain stable energy prices, and will the Government's team for the Copenhagen conference ask attending IPCC scientists why they have...

Energy: Sustainability — Question (13 Oct 2009)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords—

Climate Change — Debate (21 May 2009)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Dixon-Smith, for giving us an opportunity to discuss this subject. I shall make a subjective intervention in the debate. Before I do so, however, I want to congratulate Sir Ranulph Fiennes on getting to the top of Everest at the age of 65; it is an example to us all. I shall also draw on my personal experience of working on the Indian subcontinent for...

Climate Change: EU — Question (28 Apr 2009)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, is the Minister aware that scientists are saying that there are certain anomalies on the surface of the sun that may affect the climate in rather a different way from what is anticipated by the present situation? Is this being taken into consideration?

Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Question (19 Mar 2009)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, can the Minister say whether the carbon footprint of a four-bedroom family house would increase or decrease if daylight saving were to be in operation during the winter months as it is on the continent? Will he quantify his reply with some reliable statistics from the Energy Saving Trust, the Carbon Trust or some other responsible agency, and make them available on the Library Table...

Railways (4 Nov 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, I declare my interest as the proprietor of a private group of railway engineering companies. Can the Minister give a categoric assurance that the six-year programme as specified in his department's White Paper, Delivering a Sustainable Railway, will remain intact regardless of the current uncertainties about the economy and the outcome of the general election and beyond? If he...

Energy Bill (28 Oct 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on his excellent maiden speech. I share with him a declared interest: I have to go to Germany on Thursday and I should like to go there and back in a day but it will take two days. I declare another interest in that for 45 years I have been a hill and upland farmer in south-west Scotland. I want to mention an aspect of this matter referred to by the...

Walking and Cycling (16 Oct 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, those of us who walk daily in Battersea Park are threatened by bicyclists cycling down a pedestrian area which is segregated for children and dogs and for deaf people like me who cannot hear them coming. The park police have some difficulty in bringing these people to a magistrates' court, but they could give on-the-spot fines. Will the Minister see what he can do to make that possible?

Banking: Savings (7 Oct 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, could the Minister help to relieve some uncertainty? If a deposit is held off-balance sheet or in a liquidity fund offshore, will that count for an assurance of replacement of up to £50,000?

House of Lords: Carbon Footprint (16 Jul 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, is the noble Lord aware that statistics from Defra clearly show that if individual Members and staff gave up their motor cars and rode to the palace on horseback or in a bullock cart every day for work, the methane carbon footprint created would be equal to about 10,000 road miles of a Chelsea tractor? Does the Chairman of Committees therefore agree that, ultimately, the total...

Energy: Electricity Supplies (2 Jul 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, did not the noble Lord omit in his reply the one sure way of increasing the reliability of electricity supply, which is to reduce the winter peak load through the application of a daylight saving policy? That is the way in which at least 78 more enlightened countries now enjoy a reliable grid and lighter winter evenings. Where is the statistical proof that the darker evenings...

Aviation: Air Quality (21 May 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, following on from the question of the noble Baroness, which is extremely relevant, does not the Minister agree that businessmen are often flying more hours than pilots? There is a tendency now with fuel conservation for pilots to be encouraged to cut oxygen going into the aircraft. I have suffered from that on one or two occasions. I feel that they are also encouraged to do so...

Energy: Imported Gas (23 Apr 2008)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, is the noble Baroness aware of the statistic from the National Grid that if daylight saving had been incorporated in the Climate Change Bill it would have saved the equivalent of one nuclear power station. If daylight saving were implemented, how many gas-fired power stations would not have to be built? If she disagrees, can she produce, with the parties opposite, coherent...

Energy: Efficiency (10 Dec 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, will the Minister kindly confirm that daylight saving is already effective in 108 countries and that nearly 3 million kilowatt hours and more than 1 million tonnes of atmospheric carbon would have been saved if daylight saving had been in place here last year? Why did the all-party drafting committee exclude daylight saving from the Climate Change Bill, which we will discuss...

Police: Metropolitan Police Commissioner (26 Nov 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, is the Minister aware that the commissioner informed me that, on the last Sunday in October, all divisions of the Metropolitan Police are advised to increase their vigilance because of the increase in street crime due to the darker evenings? Therefore, will the Minister at least consider this factor when looking at police procedures in the metropolis?

Health: Obesity (15 Nov 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, does the noble Baroness agree that the report also mentioned that obesity in children was possibly caused by lack of exercise and the lack of opportunity through daylight saving not being applied? I raised this matter with her colleague, the noble Lord, Lord Darzi. He has written to me to say that headmasters and headmistresses have agreed with that factor but that some other...

Obesity (17 Oct 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of the All-Party Group on Lighter Evenings Experiment. I usually do not speak on this subject but we have been lobbied by school heads up and down the country, including the northern part of the country, that an extra hour of daylight would allow children to boot a ball about before going down to the chip shop and slumping in front of the...

Energy: Light Bulbs (8 Oct 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, does the Minister agree that not so many of these light bulbs are sold perhaps because the number of councils which have equipment to deal with the mercury contained in them is not adequate? How many councils have this equipment? In order to get the right sense of proportion, how does the energy saved compare with that which would be saved if the clocks were not changed at the end...

Barometers (16 Jul 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, I declare an interest. Is the Minister aware that mercury has been used throughout the clock-making and repairing businesses for centuries in connection with compensated pendulums? Will the European legislation affecting barometers also affect clock-making and repairing businesses where there is particular concern, as they have received no guidance on this matter from his...

Energy: White Paper (12 Jul 2007)

Lord Tanlaw: My Lords, I join previous speakers in welcoming the Minister to the Dispatch Box and congratulate him on his excellent maiden speech. His qualifications in the real world of business, rather than in politics, are formidable, and I intend to draw on them during the course of my intervention today. I hope that his appointment signals a real change in the new Administration's approach to changes...