Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:David Curry

Public Bill Committee: Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords]: Clause 67 (16 Jun 2009)

David Curry: ...with national priorities. While the form and format of the regional strategy and the level of detail for any given topic is for each region to decide, it is expected that economic objectives, housing, climate change and renewable and low-carbon energy would receive particular focus.” If we read further down, we find that the strategy is required to have a section dealing with sports,...

Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords] (1 Jun 2009) has video

David Curry: ...significantly toothless and anonymous, and now we have the wonderful notion of the board of leaders. If we draw the conclusion that we are heading towards the wrong destination, perhaps we need to change train. Perhaps we should look at different sorts of structures—the structures of representative democracy—and abandon the search for a regional promised land. In the present...

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

David Curry: ...are necessary. Our joining the European Union and the subsequent endorsement of that was a key point. I accept that if we were to join the single currency, it would be a sufficiently dramatic change as to require the endorsement of the people and the legitimacy that that would confer. I note that one of the biggest changes that has affected this House is devolution. Indeed, we constantly...

Orders of the Day: European Union (Amendment) Bill (21 Jan 2008) has video

David Curry: ...that the enlargement of the European Union was the biggest and most dramatic peaceful shift of population and power in Europe since the decline of the western Roman empire 1,600 years ago. The changes give us a better chance of dealing with the new agendas that are pressing upon us, which have constantly been repeated in the debate—climate change, population movement, competitiveness...

Public Bill Committee: Planning: Schedule 1 (15 Jan 2008)

David Curry: How would my hon. Friend envisage the national policy statement he is talking about marrying with the Climate Change Bill which is going through another place at the moment?

Orders of the Day: Planning Bill (10 Dec 2007) has video

David Curry: ...to planning—I use the word "ruthless" advisedly, and not necessarily pejoratively—including economic interests, which I have mentioned, and the need to respond to the challenges of climate change. They are very new challenges, which are linked. Although the procedures by which the Government intend to address them are clear in their architecture, however, they are much less so...

European Affairs (15 Jun 2005)

David Curry: ...third, and by no means the least, and he deserves all our congratulations. He was powerful and articulate in setting out his own view of what Europe should be doing. I am glad that he mentioned the climate change agenda, which no other Member has touched on today. As he said, we are concerned that Europe should do those things which affect the way in which people can live their lives....

World Poverty (19 Jun 2002)

Mr David Curry: ...that. However the problem is that the Americans seem to be moving towards that almost as if it were a target, whereas other major regimes have made an effort to wind down some forms of support and change their purpose. The Europeans were dragged kicking and screaming into the Uruguay round, but in fact the greatest influence on reform of the CAP has been the restrictions that are in place,...

Opposition Day: Rural Economy (25 Apr 2001)

Mr David Curry: ...on a seasonal basis. Such businesses are now subject to a new set of impositions that have nothing to do with foot and mouth disease. In my constituency, for example, the aggregates tax will hit the quarrying industry, and the climate change levy will also have an effect. The hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) set out the circumstances encountered by people in his...

Opposition Day: Rural Economy (25 Apr 2001)

Mr David Curry: ...on the number of teachers that it employs. It is curious that the Government's aid in connection with foot and mouth disease depends on the number of teachers on a local authority's books. The climate change levy should be deferred. It is a pure imposition on small businesses in the tourist sector, because the national insurance rebate does not affect them. I agree with the hon. Member...

Business of the House (16 Nov 2000)

Mr David Curry: ...Paper, but that will not now happen. It was pulled last Tuesday, when the Government seemed to think that they would be besieged by lorry drivers. Furthermore, are we to have a statement on the climate change conference, which the Deputy Prime Minister will be attending next week in The Hague? Of course, there are statements that cannot be foreseen, but there are many issues on which the...

Orders of the Day — EC Banana Regime (24 Nov 1992)

Mr David Curry: ...; and Greece has producers in Crete. Italy used to supply itself significantly from Somalia, but, because of what has happened in that unfortunate country. it now buys far more dollar fruit, so its position has slightly changed. The United Kingdom has her traditional suppliers. The Community proposals are fiercely and passionately opposed by Germany, the Benelux countries and Denmark....

Petition: Horticulture (7 Mar 1991)

Mr David Curry: ...will be needed for intra-Community trade. The proposals are still being thrashed out in Brussels, but we can see the outline of what is likely to emerge. It is clear that there will be significant changes in the way both we and the industry work. There will be more frequent visits by plant health inspectors to growers of planting material, leading to the issue of the so-called plant...