Results 1-15 of 15 for climate change speaker:Menzies Campbell

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (25 Jul 2007)

Menzies Campbell: The Prime Minister was responsible for the establishment of the Stern review, which he will recall pointed out the severe economic consequences of climate change. Is it not clear from the events of the past few weeks that we cannot afford not to take the necessary steps, or, indeed, not to spend the necessary money, to mitigate the effects of climate change?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Draft Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2007)

Menzies Campbell: ...made up. I hope that he and the whole House are sympathetic to the fact that by 2020, less than 10 per cent. of the total housing stock will be carbon neutral. If we are serious about dealing with climate change, surely more has to be done in relation to housing. We do not have to go very far in the national health service to meet doctors, nurses and health professionals who are...

Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)

Menzies Campbell: ...again. If the Government wish to pursue an effective way of combating terrorist activity—and some reports suggest that they may be rethinking on this matter—I hope that they will change their position on phone intercepts. By allowing the admissibility of information obtained from intercepts, the police and the prosecution would be given a powerful weapon. We also read that the...

European Affairs (15 Jun 2005)

Menzies Campbell: ...;that there is no option in the modern world for states to do other than co-operate in tackling global challenges such as cross-border crime, terrorism, weapons proliferation, the environment and climate change. Isolation or failure to co-operate would undermine, not enhance the national sovereignty, which we all, whatever our position, regard as greatly important.

EU Constitution (8 Jun 2005)

Menzies Campbell: ...era of globalisation, states have no option but to co-operate in tackling the challenges that globalisation brings, such as cross-border crime, terrorism, weapons proliferation, the environment and climate change. Isolation, or a failure to co-operate, would undermine, not enhance, our national sovereignty, endanger our economic strength, undermine our security and diminish our influence....

EU Constitutional Treaty (6 Jun 2005)

Menzies Campbell: ...endorse a treaty that will not come into force, will the Foreign Secretary take the opportunity this afternoon to do two things? First, will he reaffirm the Government's belief that issues such as climate change, terrorism, the middle east, Iran and trade with the United States can only be dealt with successfully through a concerted European Union approach? Secondly, will he commit the...

Chinook Crash (19 Mar 2002)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...a determination to maintain the integrity of the inquiry system or, indeed, the chain of command. As for the inquiry system, as the Secretary of State has already told us, the regulations have been changed, but as for the integrity of the chain of command, of course, that is important. Anyone with any knowledge or understanding of the armed services knows that the integrity of the chain of...

Opposition Day: Foreign and Security Policy (25 Apr 2001)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...arguing knowledgeably and passionately— and not always achieving great popularity in the House—for early intervention in the Balkans. He also exposed the illusion of safe havens in an exchange of correspondence with the then Prime Minister that was best described as incendiary. We Liberal Democrats will miss my right hon. Friend, but the House will also be the poorer. Those...

Britain's Strategic Interests (7 Jun 2000)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...weapons. It was described as an unequivocal declaration. That unequivocal declaration to pursue the elimination of all nuclear weapons must be matched by action if it is not to encourage the climate of cynicism that allowed India and Pakistan to justify the enhancement of their nuclear capability and to escape all too easily from the subsequent political condemnation. I was disappointed...

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Discipline) (21 Jun 1993)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...application. This is 1993. People's attitudes are entirely different. However, it sometimes seems that those in senior positions in the armed forces are unwilling to accept or understand how the climate of opinion has changed outside the services. I genuinely believe that this is an issue upon which the Government should be able to make what for senior commanders might be seen to be a...

Prayers: Nuclear Defence (22 Nov 1991)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...observe what I understand to be an exhortation. Since the foundation of NATO, nuclear weapons have been central to its strategy, but the doctrines under which those weapons have been deployed have changed in response to military and political change. The original doctrine of extended deterrence was replaced by flexible response. The recognition that nuclear weapons should be weapons of...

Armed Forces (Discipline) (17 Jun 1991)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...same within the services as in civilian life—is entirely sensible and the Government should pay it serious consideration. Ultimately, that recommendation should find its way into legislative change. As the climate of opinion in the country changes, it is increasingly difficult to maintain that there is something so special, so significant and so different about the armed forces to...

The Gulf (11 Dec 1990)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...be ignored. The United States has agreed to face-to-face talks and has accepted the possibility of a middle east peace conference. In those circumstances, it is idle to pretend that the political climate has not changed. I remain of the view that the military option must be kept credible, because anything which detracts from that credibility may suggest a weakness of resolve that Saddam...

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill (21 Nov 1990)

Mr Menzies Campbell: .... Coming from Scotland, I readily appreciate that, and there is no doubt that such geographical associations frequently make a substantial contribution to loyalty and morale. I hope that, in the changing circumstances that we all perceive, any proposals that are made will be sensitive to those associations, on the understanding that to remove them insensitively could well affect the...

Royal Air Force (9 Mar 1989)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...as demonstrating that: Although much hard bargaining clearly lies ahead, it is hard not to agree that a quantum leap has taken place in Soviet Strategic thinking. In the light of those favourably changing circumstances, we must ask ourselves why we should embark on the modernisation of a particular element of our nuclear capability in that atmosphere. We must also ask ourselves whether the...