Results 1-20 of 22 for climate change speaker:Stephen Byers

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Miners: Pensions (5 Nov 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will reform the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme to ensure that the entire surplus is used for the benefit of former mineworkers.

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

Stephen Byers: ...their Government? What role do they expect us to play? What should the size of government be? There are competing forces. At a time of globalisation, mass migration, international terrorism and climate change, we need national Governments to respond to those global issues and work internationally. However, the public increasingly want to stand on their own two feet. They do not want...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

Stephen Byers: ...which will deliver on such commitments. I shall make a couple of suggestions about how that might happen in relation to the school sector, which needs greater improvement. We have seen incremental changes for the better, but given the investment that has gone into our school system, a dramatic shift is needed in the quality and standards provided in our schools. I agree with the Prime...

Orders of the Day: Clause 8 — Commencement (5 Mar 2008) has video

Stephen Byers: ...right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) made last year: "It always was crackpot to argue that it was transferring great powers to Brussels and there's an important constitutional change. It doesn't justify a referendum and it never did." I agree absolutely with that statement of the position. We need to take a decision here in Committee and be accountable for so doing....

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Nuclear Power (22 Mar 2001)

Mr Stephen Byers: The right hon. Gentleman knows that our energy policy has not changed as a result of the appointment of my hon. Friend the Minister for Energy and Competitiveness in Europe. Our policy remains as it has been for the past few years an energy policy based on diversity and on sustained and secure energy production. The right hon. Gentleman appears to argue that the Government should embark on a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Corus (22 Mar 2001)

Mr Stephen Byers: What I can do is repeat the comments made by Sir Brian Moffat, the chairman and chief executive of Corus. His evidence to the Select Committee was very clear. He said that the introduction of the climate change levy made no difference whatever to the proposals being put forward by the company.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Climate Change Levy (15 Feb 2001)

Mr Stephen Byers: My ministerial colleagues and I have held regular discussions with the steel industry about the effects of the climate change levy.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Climate Change Levy (15 Feb 2001)

Mr Stephen Byers: ...the evidence given by the chairman of Corns to the Select Committee on Trade and Industry yesterday, he will see that for Corns—the major steel producer in the United Kingdom—the climate change levy has had, or will have, very little impact.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Climate Change Levy (15 Feb 2001)

Mr Stephen Byers: ...Select Committee yesterday, when he was quizzed very carefully on exactly those issues. I trust the evidence that the chairman of Corns gave to the Select Committee. He made it very clear that the climate change levy was not an issue for Corns. That is on the record; it is exactly what he said yesterday before the Select Committee. I much prefer to rely on evidence given to a Select...

Steel Industry (1 Feb 2001)

Mr Stephen Byers: ...restructuring announced today, Corus will take products from Teesside down to Llanwern, so transport costs are clearly not a great issue. The right hon. Gentleman did not mention the costs of the climate change levy to the steel industry: £8 million a year. If he had referred to the losses being incurred by Corus, he would have realised that £8 million is insignificant in that...

Opposition Day: Manufacturing Industry (24 Jan 2001)

Mr Stephen Byers: My hon. Friend speaks with passion on behalf of his constituents, and I intend shortly to speak about Corus specifically. He mentioned the £8 million cost to Corus of the climate change levy, referred to by the right hon. Member for Wells as though it were the foundation of the company's problems. My hon. Friend was right to call it peanuts. The right hon. Gentleman should be aware of...

Opposition Day: Manufacturing Industry (24 Jan 2001)

Mr Stephen Byers: ...nine months of trading as Corus, there was an operating loss of £96 million—clearly a state of affairs that any company could not ignore, but Corus is particularly affected by movements in exchange rates. Its operating profits closely track the sterling-deutschmark exchange. Little wonder that that is the case, when a 10 pfennig movement in the exchange rate with the pound...

Oral Answers to Questions — Vauxhall (Luton) (13 Dec 2000)

Mr Stephen Byers: .... General Motors made it clear yesterday why it was taking action in relation to Europe. It was because of overcapacity in the car market and, as the General Motors press notice stated, rapidly changing European market conditions with lower sales than expected. Those were the reasons given for the decision, which related to Europe. If the right hon. Gentleman cares to read the statement...

Oral Answers to Questions — Vauxhall (Luton) (13 Dec 2000)

Mr Stephen Byers: ...and Bedfordshire, will be affected by yesterday's announcement. What we as a Government must do is work alongside those people to take them through what will a difficult and painful period of change. I have no doubt that—although it will be a difficult time—because of the economic climate that we have been able to create in the United Kingdom, we are in a far stronger position...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Sustainable Energy (30 Nov 2000)

Mr Stephen Byers: The Government have taken a wide range of actions, which are contained in the UK climate change programme, which was published on 17 November.

Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill: Utilities (19 Apr 2000)

Mr Stephen Byers: ...any real concern for the structure of the industry that was left behind. No real consideration was given to the needs of consumers or to whether they received a good and fair deal because of the changes. A regulation system was introduced that created a climate of uncertainty and failed to deliver effective competition. The system was inherently unstable. The Government felt that it was...

Energy Policy (17 Apr 2000)

Mr Stephen Byers: ...for power stations will remain for private sector companies to consider, to meet the evolving needs of the energy market. That market will be influenced by measures such as exemption from the climate change levy for combined heat and power and enhanced capital allowances. The Government strongly support CHP and we will expect developers to be able to show that they have explored...

Energy Policy (17 Apr 2000)

Mr Stephen Byers: ...able to consider it again. I am conscious of the important role that the Anglesey Aluminium plant can play. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has already said all that he wants to say about the climate change levy as it affects combined heat and power.

Energy Policy (17 Apr 2000)

Mr Stephen Byers: As I said in response to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood), I do not think that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will make any significant changes to the way in which the climate change levy will be introduced or implemented.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Manufacturing (Job Losses) (15 Jul 1999)

Mr Stephen Byers: The climate change levy is a principle that is accepted by many businesses and the hon. Gentleman should accept that. We are consulting on the detail of its implementation and I believe that our proposals will command broad support in the House and in the business community.