Results 1-15 of 15 for climate change speaker:Crispin Blunt

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Data Protection (30 Jun 2009)

Crispin Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many breaches of information security there have been at his Department since its creation.

Migration and Development (24 Feb 2005)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...weather—particularly today of all days—and given the rather quixotic decision of his parents to return there from Australia. I think that it was Robert Louis Stevenson who said that the climate of Edinburgh was so bad that the weak died young and the strong envied them their fate. However, the hon. Gentleman agreed with my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham that it is...

Electricity Supply (16 Sep 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...need to create a proper free market in energy within environmental constraints. The vast majority of scientific opinion is agreed that the greatest threat to the planet is atmospheric pollution and climate change. The Government and the European Union are moving towards emissions trading for carbon dioxide. Sadly, that scheme will apply only to large-scale emitters. It will not be...

Sustainable Energy Bill (28 Mar 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ..., energy efficiency and CHP. We must look to the future of the hydrogen economy and the contribution of fuel cells because that could make the most enormous contribution to help us to meet our climate change targets. If fuel cell technology were successfully rolled out, we could easily achieve the royal commission on environmental pollution's target, provided that we do not produce...

Workplace Bullying (25 Mar 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: .... Workplace bullying is a widespread problem. We have heard evidence of the trauma that it causes. It damages businesses and, as my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (Mr. Key) made clear, the climate in which people work, especially in the public sector. The UMIST study suggests that bullying is more widespread in the public than in the private sector and several of the cases to which...

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: Clause 4 — Undertakings to Make Grants Under Schedule 12 to be Disregarded for Tax Purposes (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...defensive when I intervened to ask if there was any suggestion that the Government might have contributed to the difficulties of British Energy. We all know that they have done so; the climate change levy is the main example. I hope that at some point the Government will own up and admit formally that the new Labour name "climate change levy" is utterly misleading, that it is in fact an...

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill: [Sir Alan Haselhurst in the Chair] — Clause 1 — Expenditure relating to British Energy P.L.C. (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: .... Some perfectly proper ways exist in which they can assist British Energy without having to resort to "by any other means". One is to ensure that if we have something that can properly be called a climate change levy, it is not paid by nuclear generated electricity. Equally, its business rates could be assessed on the same basis as those of any other power generating company rather than...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Climate Change (3 Feb 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the (a) schemes and (b) bodies to which his Department contributes funding that are concerned with climate change.

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (27 Jan 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...White Paper will have no financial impact on British Energy. That indicates that the Government will not produce any proposal that will assist those electricity generators that do not contribute to climate change, which is a rather remarkable admission by the Government, but we will wait to see exactly what their proposals are. If there will be no advantage in relation to climate change,...

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (27 Jan 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...passed a statutory instrument that uniquely rated nuclear reactors, ensuring a business rate regime that discriminated against nuclear power stations. Then they introduced that peerless instrument, the climate change levy, a bureaucratic and regulatory nightmare that discriminates against manufacturing and that they also applied to nuclear-generated electricity. Then there is the...

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (27 Jan 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: .... Gentleman will resume his seat rather than insist on continuing with this point to his own embarrassment. Electricity generated by carbon-free sources, of which nuclear is one, is charged to the climate change levy at the point of consumption in exactly the same way as electricity produced from any other source. If the hon. Gentleman has worked out that that discriminates against...

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (27 Jan 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...worth of nuclear energy. What incentive will there be for effective financial performance if 65 per cent. of its cash has to go to the Government, even after it has paid its taxes, business rate, climate change levy and so on? The beast that the Government are proposing in the Bill will never fly. What sort of message do the Bill and the attendant rescue send to the rest of the electricity...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (5 Dec 2002)

Mr Crispin Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the (a) schemes and (b) bodies her Department contributes funding to which are concerned with climate change.

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Climate Change (5 Dec 2002)

Mr Crispin Blunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the (a) schemes and (b) organisations which address climate change to which her Department contributes funding to.

Public Bill Committee: Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill: Clause 33 - Discontinuance of proceedings before court appearance (5 Feb 2002)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...grateful for the intervention of the Government Whip, who can tell when the Government's cause is weak, as it has been on other Northern Ireland issues on which we have eventually persuaded them to change their mind. The whole climate of opinion is moving in the direction of the amendments, so, if the Government resist them at this stage, I hope that we shall be able to reconsider the...