Results 1-11 of 11 for climate change speaker:Diane Abbott

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 17 — Rates of air passenger duty (8 Jul 2009)

Diane Abbott: ...that I entirely accept the environmental argument for some sort of taxation on the sector. The environment is a huge issue in my constituency: I probably get more letters about the environment and climate change than about any other matter. For our children, it is vital that we in the House have the courage to make the right decisions for the future. Climate change is also a big issue in...

Royal Assent: The United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (20 Mar 2008) has video

Diane Abbott: As well as the effect on the economy in terms of coffee growing, tourism and so on, another effect of climate change in such islands and small island states across the world is that people who have built their houses in exposed parts of their country have to keep rebuilding their homes year after year—sometimes after less than six months. We need to provide more support and the...

Royal Assent: The United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (20 Mar 2008)

Diane Abbott: ...to Ministers because I know that what happens to people when they are deported is a matter of concern to Caribbean Governments and other Commonwealth Governments. I wanted to say a little about climate change issues, which are of particular concern to the Caribbean, which has seen more and worse hurricanes in recent years than before, and which is particularly at risk from rising sea...

Royal Assent: The United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (20 Mar 2008)

Diane Abbott: ...to take the fullest advantage of such expertise and to train people up—a point made earlier about capacity building. There is a need to build capacity in the region around those skills. Climate change for this region among others is not just an issue for next year or the year after, but for generations to come. Yes, there is expertise, but some of the countries need the resources and...

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Queen's Speech (19 Oct 2006)

Diane Abbott: To ask the Prime Minister if he will include a Bill on climate change in the Queen's Speech.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (20 Oct 2005)

Diane Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the Contraction and Convergence strategy for combating climate change.

New Clause 7: Repeal of Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 (16 Jun 1999)

Miss Diane Abbott: ...with and work among the consequences of those high levels of unemployment among black and Asian young men, and it is my strongly held view that if section 8 contributes even in small measure to a climate in which employers feel that they can discriminate, it should be removed. There is to be a code of conduct, but, as we discussed in Committee, good employers will abide by such a code and...

Orders of the Day — Immigration and Asylum Bill (22 Feb 1999)

Miss Diane Abbott: ...human side of these matters. It is one thing to put legislation on the statute book, but it is another to live with its consequences if it is insufficiently thought out. I hope that Ministers will change the tone of some of their remarks on immigration and asylum, as they create the wrong climate. I hope that they will address some of the practical consequences of the Bill and that they...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: Amendment of the Law (17 Mar 1998)

Miss Diane Abbott: .... An open market for competition should apply to everyone, including Rupert Murdoch. I hope that, when we consider the Competition Bill, Treasury Ministers will see fit to reinforce and support the changes that were designed to smash Murdoch's detrimental monopoly hold on large swathes of the print and electronic media. It is no good the Chancellor talking about an open market for...

Bill Presented: Earth Summit (25 Jun 1992)

Miss Diane Abbott: .... It was supposed to have approved a great many international treaties to clean the atmosphere and protect the world's plant and animal species, but those treaties dwindled to two—the climate change treaty and the bio-diversity treaty. Significantly, the EC environment commissioner, Carlo Ripa Di Meana, who should know a thing or two about such matters, did not go, because he...

Autumn Statement (13 Feb 1991)

Miss Diane Abbott: ...it were simply a series of coincidental individual decisions, rather than, as was the case, a response to, and the result of, Government policies—notably, deregulation of financial services, changes in the arrangements for mortgage tax relief, and tax cuts. I must be one of hundreds of Members of the House with a very healthy bank overdraft, and in the past year not a day has gone...