Results 1-20 of 46 for climate change speaker:Vincent Cable

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Prices (12 Nov 2009)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the cost of social tariffs to (a) energy companies and (b) consumers currently on standard tariffs.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Coal Fired Power Stations (22 Oct 2009)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on (i) the reuse of waste ash and (ii) levels of radioactive emissions from coal-fired power stations.

Bill Presented: Preparing Britain's Economy for the Future (18 Jun 2009) has video

Vincent Cable: ...bank lending, on which the hon. Members for Blaydon (Mr. Anderson) and for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) touched in different ways. The Minister is right to say that the mood on the economy has changed, certainly compared with three months ago. We are no longer talking in terms of Armageddon and a return to the 1930s. There has been a change of mood and greater optimism. On the objective...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Pay (11 May 2009)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many and what proportion of staff in his Department have received bonus payments since it was established; what the total amount of bonuses paid has been; what the largest single payment has been; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Public Expenditure (20 Apr 2009)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his latest estimate is of his Department's capital expenditure in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10, (c) 2010-11 and (d) 2011-12; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: European Council (Brussels) (17 Dec 2007) has video

Vincent Cable: ..., perhaps low politics will, and he will come round to the idea of a referendum. On the specifics of the Prime Minister's statement, he was right to draw attention to the progress made on Kyoto and climate change, but can he clarify exactly what this means for the commitments of the United Kingdom? I tackled him at Prime Minister's questions a few weeks ago on the UK commitment to a 20 per...

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (6 Nov 2007)

Vincent Cable: ...individuals or from trade unions, and that must be dealt with on an even-handed basis. There are other areas in which we have common ground with the Government. We welcome the principle behind the Climate Change Bill. We believe that it could be greatly strengthened by introducing annual targets, and the fact that the Government have recently been backsliding on targets for renewables...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Climate Change (16 May 2007)

Vincent Cable: ...debt of gratitude—I am thinking of the parliamentary sketchwriters, British amateur boxing, and the makers of Jaguar cars. On the contribution that cars have made to global warming and climate change, he once famously said that he would have failed if car use failed to decline. What, in retrospect, does he now feel that he could have done differently?

Orders of the Day: Clause 12 — Rates of air passenger duty (1 May 2007)

Vincent Cable: ...rather quirky points and—by his standards—some rather silly ones. The argument that he and some of his colleagues keep repeating that revenue-raising environmental taxes and behaviour-changing measures are fundamentally incompatible is simply wrong. Environmental taxation produces both effects, and if he wants some proof, he should look at the history of his Government's...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Ministerial Visits (18 Apr 2007)

Vincent Cable: I read the Deputy Prime Minister's speech on climate change—it was a very good speech—but how can he expect it to be taken seriously when the Government are cutting back on climate research at the Hadley centre and when carbon emissions in the UK have risen over the last 10 years while the share of environmental taxes in the economy has fallen? [Interruption.]

Aviation White Paper (6 Feb 2007)

Vincent Cable: ...is striking that, in the progress report, 10 out of 76 pages are devoted to global warming issues in relation to aviation. Out of the 170 pages of the White Paper, only three pages were devoted to climate change. That is a good measure of the extent to which that issue is becoming dominant, if not pre-eminent. I want to establish how far the Government have taken on board the issues of...

Orders of the Day: Treasury and Work and Pensions (27 Nov 2006)

Vincent Cable: ...wish to focus on the second paragraph of the Queen's Speech, which is about economic stability, and then on two of the big long-term issues that have been presaged by Sir Nick Stern's report on climate change and by the Turner report on pensions, both of which have given rise to two important Bills and, indeed, to long-term policy. When I made this speech last year, I started by...

Orders of the Day: Treasury and Work and Pensions (27 Nov 2006)

Vincent Cable: ...will be clarified. The Government have criticised us, and the Conservatives, for arguing for environmental taxes on the grounds that there is a fundamental incompatibility between raising taxes to change behaviour and raising taxes to raise revenue. I ask the Chancellor to reflect on something that I am sure he would consider a success, the climate change levy. The levy has undoubtedly had...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Green Taxes (16 Oct 2006)

Vincent Cable: We have had a short but valuable debate. This is the second parliamentary day in succession that we have debated climate change and related issues, which is a sign of the importance that we now all attach to it. I would like to acknowledge the speeches of the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley), who we all recognise was a knowledgeable Minister who did his best to advance climate change...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Green Taxes (16 Oct 2006)

Vincent Cable: ...time, but I remember when the Conservatives supported civil disobedience against increased petrol duties. I have sat on the Committee that considers the Finance Bill for many years, ever since the climate change levy was introduced. Conservatives opposed the levy in principle, and not on the grounds of the current, rather subtle arguments about the balance of carbon taxation—that is,...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (4 Jul 2006)

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research he has evaluated on the effects of condensation trails on climate change.