Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:Graham Brady

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Cost Effectiveness (12 Oct 2009)

Graham Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which Minister in his Department has been assigned responsibility for overseeing the delivery of value for money in his Department; whether his Department has established a public sector reform team to implement service reforms; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Graham Brady: ...the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) spoke about the difference between now and the time when the Bill was first conceived some four years ago. She said that equality matters, whatever the economic climate, and I agree. But competitiveness also matters. This would have been a bad Bill four years ago and it is a bad Bill now, for a variety of reasons. One reason—and by no means the...

Opposition Day — [7th Allotted Day]: Unemployment (10 Mar 2009) has video

Graham Brady: ...staff and managers, who over 12 months or so have had to cope with a dramatic increase in their work load. They are recruiting more staff, and are coping very well. They are acutely aware of the changing pattern and distribution of unemployment, and of the different kinds of clients with whom they have to deal. On the subject of the little exchanges that took place earlier on the subject...

Delegated Legislation: European Affairs (6 Dec 2006)

Graham Brady: ...on his birthday, and I hope that he enjoys the rest of the evening more than he enjoyed this afternoon. We have been very clear: we have no difficulty engaging with our EU partners to tackle climate change, and I referred to that in our opening speech. We are also clear aboutthe fact that we do not need additional EU competences to do that. He agreed with me on that point on 26 October...

Altrincham Hospital (30 Nov 2005)

Graham Brady: ...interest in the future development of services at Altrincham general hospital. We want them, as well as staff and other partners, to take a full and active role in the development of proposals for change. These options will then go forward to formal public consultation." The chief executive of the Trafford South primary care trust, Dr. Tim Riley, added: "We are delighted with the response...

Public Bill Committee: Education Bill: Clause 39 - Determination of specified budgets of LEA (8 Jan 2002)

Mr Graham Brady: ...for information to be collected by the Secretary of State including the annual per capita revenue budget of each maintained school and specific elements of school funding relating to curriculum changes or other initiatives of the Secretary of State.'. I join the Minister in welcoming you back to the Chair, Mr. Griffiths. I am sure that you are as delighted to be with us as we are to have...

Manufacturing Industry (24 Oct 2001)

Mr Graham Brady: ...face the common challenge of loss of employment in the manufacturing sector. Is she not concerned that Britain adds disproportionate costs to our manufacturing sector? I speak particularly of the climate change levy, which is a higher cost than that faced by competitors in, for example, Germany.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Steel Industry (12 Jul 2001)

Mr Graham Brady: With UK energy prices already higher than those of many of our European Union competitors, is it not insane to pile the climate change levy on the UK steel industry while it is struggling to compete?

Oral Answers to Questions — Chemical Industry (3 May 2001)

Mr Graham Brady: ...not hit service industries in the south so hard. What calculations has he made of the net outflow of tax revenue from the north and the midlands that will occur because of the introduction of the climate change levy?

Oral Answers to Questions — Manufacturing Industry (4 Apr 2001)

Mr Graham Brady: ...warned that 150,000 manufacturing jobs will be lost in the next year. Is it not utterly irresponsible for the Government to pile yet more costs on to manufacturing businesses in Wales through the climate change levy?

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions: Amendment of the Law (7 Mar 2001)

Mr Graham Brady: Does the hon. Gentleman accept that that damaging trend is likely to be accelerated, rather than slowed, by the imposition of the climate change levy on British manufacturing? Does he accept that the Chancellor's earlier comment seems spurious to those who represent constituencies in the north or the midlands which have many manufacturers, because although there have been offsetting...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Unemployment (31 Jan 2001)

Mr Graham Brady: ...in Wales now under threat, there is a danger that it may rise further. Will he and the Secretary of State, who appear to be the only people in the country who do not recognise that the climate change levy will hurt the British steel industry, make urgent representations to the Government to try to ensure that that damaging tax is scrapped?

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (23 Mar 2000)

Mr Graham Brady: ...to any increased funds that the Government say they are providing for the secondary schools in my constituency is the fact that Trafford borough council, which is under Labour control, is not funding the change in the post-16 curriculum—some hon. Members have tried to suggest that Conservative councils are not passing money on to their schools. The Department for Education and...