Results 1-20 of 184 for climate change speaker:Margaret Beckett

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing (14 May 2009)

Margaret Beckett: ...has met twice. The meetings took place on 4 March 2009 and 23 March 2009 in Eland House. No Ministers attended the meetings which were chaired by the Deputy Director of Sustainable Buildings and Climate Change Directorate. This work is ongoing and publication of the minutes could restrict the contribution of working group members to those discussions and limit their input. We will not...

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Housing (13 May 2009)

Margaret Beckett: ...notice if their landlord is repossessed—sometimes with less than two weeks to move their belongings and find somewhere new to live. I propose to extend this notice period to two months. These changes are part of a wider package of support the Government have put in place to support households at risk of repossession in the current economic climate. In the meantime, lenders and...

Ford Eco-Town (18 Mar 2009) has video

Margaret Beckett: ...housing; young people are unable to take their first step on to the property ladder. We are also familiar with the need to build housing that responds to, and helps to, reduce the impact of climate change. Our housing currently makes up about a quarter of the UK's carbon emissions. That fact gets less publicity than some of the more glamorous venues, but it is infinitely more significant,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Homes and Communities Agency (3 Mar 2009) has video

Margaret Beckett: ...addressed, surely it is better to seek on the basis of some exemplar programmes to provide new housing that meets the standards that the housing of the future will need to meet if we are to tackle climate change. Incidentally, that will also make those houses much more affordable to run. I understand that Opposition Members have sought to use this issue as a campaigning tool in a number of...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Eco-Towns (2 Mar 2009)

Margaret Beckett: ...officials are part of the eco-towns team, but there are also a number of other officials across the Department that contribute to the project, including those working in the areas of planning and climate change.

Opposition Day — [5th Allotted Day]: Housing Waiting Lists (11 Feb 2009) has video

Margaret Beckett: ...right across the board. I do not want to enter an area of great controversy, but it is a source of astonishment to me that those who are concerned, quite rightly, about the impact of emissions and climate change say a great deal about the potential of another runway in various parts of the south-east, but currently about 30 per cent. of our carbon dioxide emissions come from domestic...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Standards (9 Feb 2009)

Margaret Beckett: ...for house building. The Code for Sustainable Homes is a voluntary standard for new private sector housing, unless there is a planning requirement as set out by the Planning Policy Statement on Climate Change (supplement to PPS 1).

[David Taylor in the Chair] — Rented Housing (6 Nov 2008)

Margaret Beckett: ...so that we can deliver up to 5,500 new social homes in the next 18 months. I know that the Committee has recognised that the house building programme will be more challenging in light of the current economic climate. There is no question but that the turmoil in the financial markets has seen mortgage lending plummet, and that that has had severe consequences for the house building...

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Eco-towns (4 Nov 2008)

Margaret Beckett: ...sustainability appraisal which has been carried out for the policy and the shortlisted eco-town locations. Eco-towns have been developed in response to two major challenges—the threat of climate change and the national housing shortage. They will pioneer more sustainable living so that we can learn the lessons for future developments and help meet housing need in areas where this...

Bill Presented: Intelligence and Security Committee (17 Jul 2008) has video

Margaret Beckett: ...awareness of the Committee's work among Members of both Houses. However, I want to stress the point made by members of the Committee in the debate and to which the Home Secretary responded. The changes that we are discussing cannot be implemented without additional resources. Indeed, welcome for the proposals has to be conditional on such resources being available, in what I completely...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: National Security Strategy (19 Mar 2008) has video

Margaret Beckett: I warmly welcome the publication of this first national security strategy and its rich content, not least its drawing together of issues such as climate change and nuclear non-proliferation, which tend to be dealt with separately in public debate, but which are obviously part of a continuum in public policy making. I also very much welcome what the Prime Minister said about both the work of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

Margaret Beckett: ...want greater efficiency and more accountability. We want more say for national Parliaments and Governments. Above all, we want a European Union that takes action where it is needed, on issues like climate security, economic reform and energy, and leaves national Governments in charge of key areas including taxes, foreign policy, defence and the domestic economy. In short, we want a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

Margaret Beckett: ...amendments to the European Communities Act 1972 had been passed by this House. On one point, I suspect that the shadow Foreign Secretary and I agree—it will not be sufficient simply to change the title of the document. An amending treaty must be different from the constitutional treaty that preceded it in content, in form and in purpose. The European Union as a whole must...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

Margaret Beckett: ...And, of course, at the last European Council in spring, we saw Europe at its best. The EU took a vital step not only in leading the global response to one of the greatest threats that we face—climate change—but in so doing beginning the process of creating the world's first low-carbon and energy- efficient economy. If we make that transition successfully, it will mean that...

Bill Presented: Darfur (5 Jun 2007)

Margaret Beckett: ...not be able to address the underlying issues that must be resolved if there is to be long-term stability in the region. Those issues include resource pressures—which are made worse through climate change—poor governance and economic stagnation. The UK has done much to help to address the problems of Darfur—not least through my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: EU Constitution (5 Jun 2007)

Margaret Beckett: My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. It would be helpful if we got the right kind of amending treaty, but the EU is not paralysed. It is continuing to work; useful decisions on, for example, climate change continue to be made. But it would be good to get a good agreement.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Zimbabwe: UN Commission on Sustainable Development (5 Jun 2007)

Margaret Beckett: ...and on the Commission's credibility. My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Lord Triesman of Tottenham, and my hon. Friend the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Ian Pearson, on behalf of the Government, have since publicly condemned the decision to appoint a Zimbabwe Minister to this position. Francis Nhema remains...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: UK-Islamic Relations (1 May 2007)

Margaret Beckett: ...shared values and interests, we are working together for a safer, more just and more prosperous world for all, addressing the common challenges that face us all, such as development, terrorism and climate change.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Climate Security (1 May 2007)

Margaret Beckett: ...;and, by coincidence, on the very day of the debate in the Security Council—a group of retired American generals and admirals published their own assessment of the security issue, describing climate change as "a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world." They also identified it as a security risk to the United States, as it is to the whole world.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: United Nations Security Council (25 Apr 2007)

Margaret Beckett: The principal priorities for the UK Presidency of the Security Council during April are: to hold a thematic debate in the Security Council on Energy, Security and Climate to raise international consciousness of the implications of climate change for international security. I chaired the debate on 17 April and an unprecedented number of states took part; to achieve agreement on increasing the...