Results 1-7 of 7 for climate change speaker:Bob Ainsworth
- Written Answers — Defence: Electronic Warfare (12 Oct 2009)
Bob Ainsworth: ...on proportionate protective measures, are provided by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) in close consultation with the energy sector and the Department for Energy and Climate Change, rather than the Ministry of Defence.
- Written Answers — Defence: Military Bases: Helicopters (24 Nov 2008)
Bob Ainsworth: Initial environmental baseline studies have been completed which include estimates of the existing noise climates (computer modelling) at all the sites being considered by programme Belvedere (a programme to rationalise the battlefield helicopter estate of Joint Helicopter Command). The programme includes RAF Odiham and RAF Benson. An assessment of the potential changes in noise levels at...
- Counter-Insurgency (Iraq/Afghanistan) (10 Jun 2008)
Bob Ainsworth: That is the way that the hon. Lady came across. In my view, that would be dangerous; it would undermine the country's ability to meet the security challenges that we may face in a rapidly changing and unpredictable world. That is to misunderstand the nature of the current operations and the way in which conflicts are likely to evolve. Secretary Gates, who was quoted by the hon. Lady, said in...
- Written Answers — Defence: Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations (21 Apr 2008)
Bob Ainsworth: The Ministry of Defence records instances of heat illness, as part of its monitoring of climatic injury. Heat illness has traditionally been divided into heat exhaustion and heat stroke, but in practice it is difficult to define the division between the two. Heat illness is therefore used to cover a continuum of illness ranging from mild symptoms such as muscular weakness, headache and excess...
- Prayers: Energy Conservation (3 Jul 1996)
Mr Bob Ainsworth: ...the points that I intend to make and the questions that I intend to raise, and I look forward to his answers. First, I wish to examine the progress that has been made in each of the schemes in the climate change programme. No discussion of this programme could proceed without mentioning the Energy Saving Trust. Last year, I pointed out that only 10 per cent. of the trust's originally...
- Remaining Private Members' Bills: Carbon Dioxide Emissions (17 Feb 1995)
Mr Bob Ainsworth: ..., the hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Sir P. Beresford), to act on that recommendation. I hope that the Minister will tell us if and when that will happen. On policy and policy failures, "Climate Change: the UK Programme" said: "the centrepiece of the programme is the set of measures designed to limit emissions of CO2. The centrepiece of the centrepiece, therefore, was the Energy...
- Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (30 Nov 1994)
Mr Bob Ainsworth: ...to us not to talk about VAT on fuel because it was in last year's Budget suggested that he is not aware of what people up and down the country are talking about. They are not talking about the changes that have been made to certain aspects of public finances in this year's Budget. They are talking about the cruel and unnecessary imposition of the second half of VAT on fuel, which the...