Results 1-10 of 10 for climate change speaker:Quentin Davies

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (20 Feb 2008)

Quentin Davies: ...for a long time that, in the modern world, a platform of 60 million people with single-nation status is simply not sufficient to solve some of the problems that we face. That goes for the economy, climate change and the environment, and many other matters, and certainly for foreign and defence policy. If we wish to have an effective, positive influence on the stability of the world, we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: EU Treaty (Climate Change) (9 Oct 2007)

Quentin Davies: What assessment he has made of the likely impact on the ability of the UK and its European partners to combat climate change of proposed changes to qualified majority voting in the new EU treaty.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: G8 Summit (11 Jun 2007)

Quentin Davies: ...front, particularly, and on taking such a strong line with President Putin? Does he agree that it may be desirable, and even necessary in the future, to link the world trade talks and the climate change agenda if we are to exert leverage on such countries as Brazil over deforestation, for example? Brazil is the major potential beneficiary of a new world trade agreement and if we lose the...

Security of Supply (12 Jan 2006)

Quentin Davies: ..., are to conduct their own parallel energy review. There have been two dramatic developments in the world over the past few months that we cannot ignore. One is that although the evidence of climate change has been apparent to us anecdotally for some years, because of such things as the changes in the seasons in this country, there is now empirical evidence, based on the latest...

Security of Supply (12 Jan 2006)

Quentin Davies: ...supporting the private Bill on Felixstowe dock and harbour. We would never have had the Felixstowe dock without adopting that procedure, and what a success that has been. Then there is the climate change levy. We should not give a bonus to existing stations, which are making a reasonable amount of money and are rapidly depreciating. But for new nuclear build, we should exonerate energy...

Terrorism Financing (Northern Ireland) (10 Jul 2003)

Mr Quentin Davies: ...time it will be the locus classicus for anyone taking an interest in the financing of terrorism in Northern Ireland. It corrects many of our assumptions. It always takes a while for us to adapt to changes, and our impression, even of important situations, can sometimes be out of date. Many people have the impression that terrorism in Northern Ireland is mainly funded by contributions from...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Charge to Windfall Tax (15 Jul 1997)

Mr Quentin Davies: ...had been fairly, adequately, indeed definitively, described in the prospectuses. We now find that that is not true, because another Government have been elected and have said, "No, we are going to change the framework of understanding against which people took the decision to invest in shares,"—whether it was a widow investing £200 or a pension fund investing tens of millions...

Prayers: Action for the Countryside (26 Jun 1992)

Mr Quentin Davies: ...for new niches and products with which to attract the consumer. In other words, one must find a new way of using one's capital resources—for a farmer, land is the most important—and change one's business mix to develop a new market. The same applies to shipbuilding, steel production or the manufacture of shoe buttons, should there be a crisis of over-production in the shoe...

Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address: The Economy (7 Nov 1991)

Mr Quentin Davies: ...costs. The fundamental economic costs that are referred to generally in text books concern the fact that inflation erodes the effectiveness of the price mechanism. Beyond that, it fundamentally changes the savings pattern of people in the private and household sector. It means that no longer are people induced to invest in productive assets. They are looking for stores of value that will...

The Real Economy (2 Dec 1987)

Mr Quentin Davies: ...are technical, and perhaps the hon. Gentleman would benefit from a lecture on that subject. However, I do not have the time to give it to him. Suffice it to say that it is related to technical changes in the banking markets, to the relatively high level of real interest rates throughout the world economy during the 1980s, and to the fact that many financial resources that were previously...