Results 1-19 of 19 for climate change speaker:Des Browne

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Ministerial Meetings (23 Jan 2008) has video

Des Browne: ...other things, when I meet him on Friday. The hon. Gentleman is quite right. We know that 40 per cent. of the electricity generated must come from nuclear. We know that the future of our energy and climate change policies depends on energy conservation, but it also depends on the sustainable production of energy. Those who have thought the matter through and understand that a balance is...

Written Ministerial Statements — Scotland: Queen's Speech (7 Nov 2007)

Des Browne: ...the Government and the Scottish Executive on Bills that might include provisions that trigger the Sewel Convention. The Bills identified within the Queen's Speech in this section are as follows: Climate Change (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Legislation relating to Climate Change is likely to include provisions in devolved areas to meet the new emissions target. The...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Des Browne: ...the future: international terrorism, weapons of mass destruction proliferation, fragile states and intransigent regimes. Of course, other pressures will complicate our response to such challenges: climate change, energy security, pressure on natural resources and social, technological and geopolitical change. The UK has a significant part to play in improving the international community's...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq: Peace Keeping Operations (25 Apr 2007)

Des Browne: ...Telic and Herrick was a result of the roulements in both theatres. An increase in those being treated for diarrhoea and vomiting type illnesses is common at such times, largely as a result of the climatic, food and environment changes experienced by those deploying into operational theatres. While such symptoms are unlikely to result in a patient being admitted to a hospital in the UK,...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Des Browne: ..., spending and borrowing. It is part of the mechanism whereby we will deliver on the wider commitment and vision of a productive, enterprising, competitive Britain. With the pace of world economic change accelerating, the pre-Budget report, the Budget and the Bill combine to strengthen Britain for the global opportunities ahead. Through those measures, we can lead the world in the new...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Des Browne: When I deal with the Bill's provisions I will come to our expectations in terms of carbon emissions, but I can reassure the right hon. Gentleman that our climate change levy and related policies on carbon emissions will ensure that we meet our Kyoto target and will make a significant contribution to the reduction of carbon emissions.

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Des Browne: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for setting the wider context for the debate in relation to climate change, and for indicating something that the House may already know: not only does the Treasury have responsibility, through provisions in the Finance Bill, for part of the programme addressing such issues, but that responsibility is shared across the Government, principally by my right hon....

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Des Browne: ...real estate investment trusts to improve the efficiency of our residential and commercial property markets and to allow smaller investors to access property returns. We have also acted to change part of the inheritance tax regime for trusts, specifically bringing accumulation and maintenance trusts and interest in possession trusts into the mainstream rules for other kinds of trusts. The...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Des Browne: ...matters has been welcomed by environmental organisations such as Greenpeace. The Green Alliance said that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer "has set the right direction of travel on climate change". However, as the Chancellor has made clear, we need strong leadership to take the tough decisions required to tackle climate change.

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Des Browne: ...when he raised the same issue using a slightly more tangential approach, I accept that there are responsibilities beyond what can be done in the Finance Bill in response to environmental and climate change.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (28 Mar 2006)

Des Browne: ...they support our spending plans. What does the shadow Chancellor say now, when offered the opportunity to support our plans? He is unable to answer the question—[Interruption.] Let us look at climate change. For the past six years the Opposition have refused to support the climate change levy, which has cut carbon emissions by 28 million tonnes—[Interruption.] Today, they...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (28 Mar 2006)

Des Browne: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Today, they announce that they will not vote against the Budget measures on the climate change levy—they have changed their mind and are flip-flopping again. However, I wish to be fair. The Opposition have one economic policy that we know of, and that is their third fiscal rule. It is that over the economic cycle, and regardless of the needs of the economy...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (28 Mar 2006)

Des Browne: ...employment, with some 2.3 million more jobs since 1997. This Budget equips our country for the future, investing in education, science and enterprise, and facing up to the global challenge of climate change. It is our approach, based on economic stability, with the proper balance between spending and borrowing, that is the right way to go. The Budget takes the right decisions to equip...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (28 Mar 2006)

Des Browne: .... Given the demonstrative leadership role that he wishes the Government to take, can he indicate to the House how he personally will be voting tonight in relation to the revalorisation of the climate change levy?

Written Ministerial Statements — Treasury: Public Expenditure (19 Jul 2005)

Des Browne: ...-intensity of goods and services; continued global uncertainty with ongoing threats of international terrorism and global conflict; and increasing pressures on our natural resources and global climate from rapid economic and population growth in the developing world and sustained demand for fossil fuels in advanced economies. These changes will have fundamental and far-reaching...

Motability (8 Jul 2003)

Mr Des Browne: ...some of her passion and knowledge in the words of my speech, they will understand why. As my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles has reminded the House, Motability has its origins in the radical changes in mobility provision for disabled people that took place in the 1970s. Its formation was due to the determination of the late Lord David Ennals, and of Lord Morris of Manchester, who was...

Orders of the Day — Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill (10 Jul 2001)

Mr Des Browne: ...this, and that people have been turned away after failing to produce the appropriate identifiers—but there is a series of other identifiers that they could produce. It is hoped that, in the climate that the Bill will create, the emphasis will be on the photographic aspect of the identification. It may then be appropriate for us to turn our attention to the part of the document that...

Orders of the Day — International Development Bill (6 Mar 2001)

Mr Des Browne: ...who attended are coming thick and fast to my office in Kilmarnock. All express thanks for the event, but they also ask what more can be done. If there is any need for evidence that our Government's change in development policy—moving it from, as my right hon. Friend put it, a policy subordinate to commercial and short-term political interests, to one based on the reduction of poverty...

Opposition Day: Sub-post Offices (12 Apr 2000)

Mr Des Browne: ...Talking down the network is damaging it. I know that there are concerns about a crisis of confidence among sub-postmasters, and I accept that that means that people make business decisions in that climate. However, I see a crisis of confidence among the customers of sub-post offices. When I met my own delegation of sub-postmasters today—and I shall not resist the temptation of naming...