Results 1-18 of 18 for climate change speaker:Martin Caton

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (21 Jul 2009)

Martin Caton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps he plans to take to reduce fuel poverty if energy prices increase in winter 2009-10.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (29 Jun 2009)

Martin Caton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many households received assistance under the Warm Front programme in 2008-09; and how many households he estimates will receive such assistance in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) (11 Feb 2009) has video

Martin Caton: ...of carbon emissions from existing and new homes. It would set initial targets for those sectors, and would require the Secretary of State to specify further targets, especially if so advised by the Climate Change Committee or any other body established by Act of Parliament to advise the Government on climate change. In addition, the Bill would require the Secretary of State to consult and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) (11 Feb 2009) has video

Martin Caton: ...generation. The 2003 energy White Paper described the energy that we do not need to use as the cheapest energy, and improving energy efficiency delivers just that. This is the low-hanging fruit on the climate change tree, but to date we have not harvested it anything like as well as we should have done—or, indeed, as well as some other countries have done. The Bill sets an initial...

Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster: Engagements (19 Mar 2008) has video

Martin Caton: It is clear that the international drive for biofuels is doing more harm than good for food security and biodiversity, and even in combating climate change. Will my right hon. Friend take a lead in Europe by calling for the current targets to be abandoned until we have a truly sustainable generation of biofuels?

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LISBON TREATY) (No. 7): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 8) — [8th Allotted Day] (27 Feb 2008)

Martin Caton: Just before the previous interventions, the hon. Gentleman said that climate change affects us all, but does he agree that it does not affect us all equally? It will have the greatest impact on the poorest people in the poorest parts of the world. In that sense, climate change is not only an environmental issue, but a social justice issue.

Orders of the Day: Planning and Energy Bill (25 Jan 2008)

Martin Caton: ...as those set out in the short Bill before us today. It is an enabling measure. As the hon. Gentleman said, it would not make anyone do anything. It would free local authorities to help to combat climate change using planning policy. It would allow councils to set higher standards for energy efficiency in their development plans than those laid down in building regulations, and allow them...

Orders of the Day: Planning and Energy Bill (25 Jan 2008)

Martin Caton: ...that the Bill talks about England and Wales, but the most appropriate way to move forward, especially given that the Minister with responsibility for planning is currently consulting on combating climate change, would be to provide for those framework powers in the Bill.

Orders of the Day: Planning and Energy Bill (25 Jan 2008)

Martin Caton: ...in certain developments. We need clarity and active encouragement for ambitious standard setting. We are now in a different position from last year because we have the planning policy statement on climate change published in December. That was welcome and certainly moves us in the right direction of travel. It says that councils will be expected to provide for onsite renewables and local...

[Ann Winterton in the Chair] — Emissions Trading (25 Oct 2007)

Martin Caton: ...in contrast to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd) and as a democratic socialist, I am not instinctively attracted to the idea of meeting the greatest challenge that our planet faces, climate change, by creating a new marketplace. I thus surprise myself a little in supporting the EU emissions trading scheme and in arguing that, as our Chairman, the hon. Member for South...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 29 — Reduction of regulatory burdens (17 May 2007)

Martin Caton: That is absolutely right. As for the consultation on the planning policy statement on planning and climate change, to which I referred earlier, we still do not know what position the Government are taking after considering all the responses, but I hope that Ministers will give weight to the issues raised by organisations such as the Association for the Conservation of Energy, which drew...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 29 — Reduction of regulatory burdens (17 May 2007)

Martin Caton: ...(Energy and Energy Efficiency) Bill, which, coincidentally, will return to the Order Paper tomorrow. That Bill is about enabling local authorities better to contribute to tackling the problem of climate change using planning policy. If enacted, it would allow councils, if they so chose, to set higher standards for energy efficiency in their development plans than those laid down in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Environmental Issues (2 May 2007)

Martin Caton: Does my hon. Friend agree that the National Assembly for Wales has a central role to play in protecting our environment and combating climate change? Will he support proposals for new law-making powers for the Assembly to tackle environmental pollution in all its forms?

Point of Order: Welsh Affairs (1 Mar 2007)

Martin Caton: ...Monmouth (David T.C. Davies), if only because it means that he has finished ranting. I enjoyed the Secretary of State's opening remarks and especially appreciated his emphasis on the need to tackle climate change. I agree with that priority, so I take this opportunity to recommend to the Wales Office team my private Member's Bill, which would enable local planning authorities to set higher...

Orders of the Day: Local Planning Authorities (Energy and Energy Efficiency) Bill (19 Jan 2007)

Martin Caton: ...them to make provision for sustainable energy and microgeneration requirements in the same document. The Bill is about enabling local authorities better to contribute to tackling the problem of climate change, which is undoubtedly the most important challenge for this planet at this time in its history. After the publication of the Stern review, surely no one can doubt either the scale of...

Orders of the Day: Local Planning Authorities (Energy and Energy Efficiency) Bill (19 Jan 2007)

Martin Caton: ...in certain developments. The Government office for the east of England objected on the grounds that the current planning system did not permit the setting of energy efficiency standards. That needs changing and this Bill will deliver that change. I would like to pay tribute to the work that the Government have already done in moving forward to achieve their objective of zero carbon homes...

Orders of the Day: Company Law Reform Bill [ Lords] (6 Jun 2006)

Martin Caton: ...harmed by the activities of a UK company to take action against them in UK courts if they cannot secure justice at home. I understand the Government's reluctance, but if we do not make this sort of change, we shall effectively condemn victims in the poorest parts of the world to no or at best inadequate redress. We have only to think back to Bhopal and the years after it and the fact that...

Steel Industry (5 Mar 2002)

Mr Martin Caton: ...and the second on the day after May day—was that 6,000 people in Wales and on Teesside would be sacked come hell or high water, and that nothing that government at any level could offer would change the decision. All the things that Corus had moaned about in the preceding months—the climate change levy, the comparative values of the pound and the euro, its demand for great...