Results 1-12 of 12 for climate change speaker:Tom Clarke

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: International Co-operation (11 Nov 2009)

Tom Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent discussions he has made on ensuring that a forthcoming climate change agreement is consistent with the Government's commitment to international development.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: International Development (3 Nov 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: Is my hon. Friend aware of any discussions involving those who recognise that ODA funding has also got to be matched against the need for increased resources to combat climate change, and will we set out our stall ahead of the Copenhagen summit?

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: International Cooperation (7 Jul 2009)

Tom Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the Prime Minister plans to attend the climate change conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Amendment of the Law (28 Apr 2009) has video

Tom Clarke: ...163;1.64 billion of tax relief for business investment; £600 million of extra money for pensioners; £590 million of help for the unemployed; £400 million for the strategic investment fund for business; and £380 million in measures to combat climate change. That hardly sounds to me like a Government who are doing nothing or one who are simply being told that they are...

Royal Assent: International Aid Transparency (13 Nov 2008) has video

Tom Clarke: ..., substantially improving health care, investing more in education for girls and boys and dealing with conflict and its effect on developing countries. They are ongoing, as is the importance of climate change and the environment—all of them encapsulated in the millennium development goals. It is in that spirit, too, that I welcome not only DFID's annual report to this House, but the...

Written Answers — International Development: Sub-Saharan Africa: Climate Change (10 Sep 2008)

Tom Clarke: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much funding provided to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to help combat climate change was in the form of (a) loans and (b) aid in each of the last three years.

[Mr. David Amess in the Chair] — Water and Sanitation (Developing Countries) (5 Jun 2007)

Tom Clarke: ...and Madhya Pradesh, and that is welcome. It was certainly welcome to the people to whom we spoke, as my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland will recall. Given the impact that climate change is likely to have on low-lying areas of the sub-continent, it is important that we have a strategy to deal with such matters. I am glad to join the hon. Member for Stone,...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Tom Clarke: ...references to that important subject, and I welcome what was said about governance, which I assume includes Zimbabwe. I also welcome what was said about Darfur, which was rightly the subject of exchanges at Prime Minister's questions. It was mentioned by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and on several other occasions in this debate. I am also concerned about trade, and I am glad...

Disabled People (4 May 2006)

Tom Clarke: ...and support that are appropriate to people with learning disabilities, rather than relying on external agencies. I entirely accept that no Government can solve all those problems. We can create the climate, and I believe that this Government are doing exactly that, but employers have responsibilities as well. To be fair, there are examples of best practice among some small and large...

The Economy and Welfare Reform (25 May 2005)

Tom Clarke: ...education, 280,000 more workers in the national health service and 40,000 more workers in the police. Cumulatively, that is a credit to this Government. Of course, we live in a period of constant change and challenge. For example, at first glance too many manufacturing jobs have gone since 1997, but in fact—as is reflected by global comparisons—we are producing more output with...

Pensioners (Winter Heating) (11 Dec 1989)

Mr Tom Clarke: ...is expensive. The money spent on publicity over the years could have made life much easier for many pensioners. Throughout the United Kingdom, the plight of pensioners has been compounded by the 1988 change from supplementary benefit to income support, which led to the abolition of heating additions for the elderly, disabled and those with young children. Previously, payments of...

Orders of the Day — Industry and Privatisation (24 Jun 1983)

Mr Tom Clarke: ...;I do not object to that as some of my constituents are farmers — so we should not decide the issue of a mine on the short-term predictions any more than we would do so for a farm just because the current climate does not appear to be good or because mother nature temporarily is not smiling upon the resources available. We have no right to tell the miners that they should not have...