Results 1-20 of 62 for climate change speaker:Tom Brake

Aerosol Technology (Climate Change) (16 Jun 2009)

Tom Brake: ...a little early, which may enable us to dwell at greater length on the subject of the debate, which is the potential of aerosol technology to play a major role in tackling some issues relevant to climate change. I see the debate as having a six-fold objective: first, to highlight a technology that could assist in the battle against climate change; secondly, to highlight a technology that I...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Airwave Service (26 Nov 2008)

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what organisations for which his Department is responsible (a) use and (b) are planning to use Airwave handsets.

Orders of the Day: Planning and Energy Bill (25 Jan 2008)

Tom Brake: It is a pleasure to speak in favour of the Bill. The House is rightly focused on the issues of climate change and planning, which is exactly what the Bill does in highlighting those two critical issues. I welcome the three main objectives set out in the Bill. Hon. Members will have noticed that clause 1 states that a local planning authority "may...specify that any person making an...

Orders of the Day: Planning and Energy Bill (25 Jan 2008)

Tom Brake: ...in Merton. I do not want to detain the House any longer. I want to see the Bill proceed. It is a short Bill that would make a huge difference to the UK's ability to tackle CO2 emissions and climate change, and I hope that it will receive its Second Reading today.

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill (10 Jan 2008)

Tom Brake: ...meant the same thing as sustainability appraisal. What reassurance can you give Members that the Bill and the different components that you propose will take on board sustainability and climate change? For instance, will you give us a guarantee that the national policy statements will be subject to a strategic environmental assessment?

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill (10 Jan 2008)

Tom Brake: Earlier, you referred quite specifically to the Climate Change Bill and have said that the national policy statements would need to take that into account. Do you mean, therefore, that any national policy statement on aviation will have to take into account the 60 per cent. reduction in emissions?

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Further written evidence reported to the House (10 Jan 2008)

Tom Brake: ...can you explain what extra you acquire as a result of being a statutory consultee that would enable you, for instance, to operate more effectively in addressing issues relating to the environment, climate change or flooding?

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Written evidence to be reported to the House (8 Jan 2008)

Tom Brake: Following on your comment about carbon constraint—you also mentioned climate change—there seems to be an area of slight difference between you and the CBI. The CBI said that it was happy with what the Bill said in relation to sustainability. You, however, are seeking clarification from the Government on the relationship between the Climate Change Bill and the Planning Bill. What...

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Written evidence to be reported to the House (8 Jan 2008)

Tom Brake: Does that mean you would expect, for instance, the infrastructure planning commission and the national policy statements to have regard for the reduction targets in the Climate Change Bill, so that they would actually take that into account and try to judge whether the national policy statements met those, and whether the IPC was only authorising projects that delivered on the Climate Change Bill?

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Planning: Renewable Energy (10 Dec 2007)

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations she has received on maintaining the Merton Rule in the forthcoming Climate Change Planning Policy Statement.

Orders of the Day: Clause 38 — Planning contribution under section 46 of PCPA 2004 (11 Oct 2007)

Tom Brake: I support the amendments without equivocation. As the Minister said, they are about sharpening the consideration and priority of issues to do with climate change, which we support. In Committee, our concern was that the Mayor was going to be held back in relation to what he could do for climate change because of the linkage with national Government policies. Therefore, I welcome the...

Orders of the Day: Schedule 2 — Repeals (27 Feb 2007)

Tom Brake: ...efficient manner in which matters have proceeded. We have had an entertaining, well-informed and reasonably non-partisan debate. There has been broad agreement on much that is in the Bill, whether climate change or health inequalities. The hon. Member for Regent's Park and Kensington, North (Ms Buck) succeeding in uniting all parties against her and the Mayor's proposal on waste...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 8 — Approval of Mayor's final draft budget by Assembly (27 Feb 2007)

Tom Brake: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the sense of partnership should be enhanced as the Mayor takes on additional responsibilities—for climate change and health inequalities, for instance—rather than sticking with the status quo?

Orders of the Day: New Clause 14 — The general power of the Authority: duty to have regard (27 Feb 2007)

Tom Brake: ...the Minister suggested, the amendments are largely uncontroversial, apart from the implications for rail. We welcome the fact that new clause 14 requires the Mayor to have regard to the impact on climate change of any measures that he seeks to introduce. I suspect that he is a little aggrieved that we are discussing that on the day on which he launched his plan to cut emissions by 60 per...

Public Bill Committee: Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill: Clause 79 (22 Feb 2007)

Tom Brake: ...that role effectively, working with relevant partners. That is where the Bill is defective. It is appropriate to highlight some of the partners who will be missing from the table, unless the Government change the Bill. That brings me to amendment No. 49 and NHS or foundation trusts. I accept the arguments put forward by the NHS Confederation that primary care trusts commission health...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: New Clause 6 (18 Jan 2007)

Tom Brake: I hope that, with new clauses 6 and 7, I will be on firmer ground, albeit we will be discussing water. We had a debate earlier today on the importance of climate change, of the Mayor having a strategy that addresses it and of providing him with the flexibility he needs to take on that very important and serious agenda. The new clauses, which relate to water and the utilities, are very much in...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: New Clause 6 (18 Jan 2007)

Tom Brake: .... To return to the new clauses, I hope that the Minister sees their validity, certainly in relation to providing the Mayor with additional powers to develop his flexible and responsive strategy on climate change. That is their purpose.

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: New Clause 1 (18 Jan 2007)

Tom Brake: ...representations he received, and why he rejected them. Indeed, we had a debate earlier today about how we wanted to be flexible in giving the Mayor scope to develop his own strategy in relation to climate change. The difference here is that the Mayor has a track record of disregarding the responses to consultation. Therefore, in spite of the Minister’s warm words— Stephen...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: New Clause 1 (18 Jan 2007)

Tom Brake: ...that his powers are exercised sensibly. It is also worth pointing out that the proposed extension is unlikely to address one particular concern, which flies in the face of an earlier debate on the climate change strategy. Our view is that the extension, the 90 per cent. discount for residents in the area of the extension and saying that they must pay for a week and nothing less will...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Tom Brake: ...is making. I want clarification of whether the Mayor will have responsibility for and power over aircraft that are taxiing, for example. Clearly, in the vicinity of Heathrow the impact of that on climate change and emissions is significant. If the Minister is saying that that is excluded, clearly that is a substantial negative input to emissions in London over which the Mayor will have no...