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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (18 May 2007)

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps his Department is taking to communicate to the public (a) the causes of climate change, (b) the impact on the United Kingdom and the wider world of climate change and (c) the possible solutions to climate change.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (6 Nov 2006)

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to his oral statement of 12 October 2006, Official Report, column 485, on climate change, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the film "An Inconvenient Truth" has raised awareness of climate change.

Opposition Day: Crisis in Agriculture (1 Feb 2001)

Mr Nick Brown: .... I presume that they will not cut expenditure on agriculture. The hon. Gentleman asked specifically about the horticulture sector. We were engaged in discussions with the Chancellor before the climate change levy was introduced. We secured concessionary arrangements for horticulture, and I am in continuing dialogue with those in the sector to ascertain what more can be done to achieve...

Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy (11 May 2000)

Mr Nick Brown: ...-intensive right the way through the supply chain, from producers to retailers, such a policy would be short term and foolish. Conditions for dairying in this country are ideal; I do not mean just climatic and agricultural conditions. The pattern of consumption in this country is different from that in the rest of the European Union. To allow the industry to be diminished for short-term...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Lloyd's Underwriters: Special Reserve Funds (13 Jul 1993)

Mr Nick Brown: I am not standing in the election. I prefer the climate in Newcastle. As domestic heat and light are necessities, fuel consumption will not be cut by much as a result of this tax rise. If anyone is still giving the argument about the environment any credence, he cannot plausibly argue that the tax increase will do much to reduce the emissions of CO, in line with the United Nations climate...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Residence: Available Accommodation (13 Jul 1993)

Mr Nick Brown: ...relaxation in the rules to give money to people who already seem to have rather large sums of money available to them. I do not understand why we should do that, especially in the present economic climate. The Financial Secretary, in fairness to him, tried to explain it in Committee. As an explanation of why the clause was in the Bill, he said: It was represented to me, very persuasively,...

Public Accounts (28 Oct 1992)

Mr Nick Brown: .... The Treasury official who compiled the minute responding to the report must have had mixed views about the whole sorry episode. The PAC report refers to inadequate controls which create a climate which is conducive to fraud and theft … the Department's problems may have heightened the risk of irregularities remaining undetected. The Treasury boldly responds thus, in minute 13: The...

Clause 31: Relief (8 May 1991)

Mr Nick Brown: ..., clause 31 is welcome—so welcome that our amendment is intended to make the tax relief begin this tax year rather than in 1992, as the Government intend. I understand that the cost of the change that we propose would be about £15 million, although I suspect that it might turn out to be less. I can think of only three possible objections to our proposal. First, it might be...

Taxation (Opposition Policies) (14 May 1990)

Mr Nick Brown: ...will give Scotland that new approach. We must make sure the next five years are not as bad as the last. The electorate in Scotland have delivered their own verdict on that. Dealing with the pace of change and the pace at which commitments would be honoured, in an article in The Times of 13 August 1978, the shadow Chancellor said: I am very anxious to avoid the impression of the instant...

Public Expenditure (9 Feb 1989)

Mr Nick Brown: ...community health has to be set alongside and against a projected fall in the real value of capital investment in the NHS between 1989–90 and 1991–92. It also has to be set alongside the Government's proposed changes for general practitioner services. What sort of Government place financial penalties on general practitioners for spending too much public money on patients? What...