Results 1-20 of 28 for climate change speaker:Paul Flynn

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations (9 Nov 2009)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what discussions he has had with each company which has expressed an interest in building new nuclear power plants on (a) setting a floor price for carbon, (b) updating insurance arrangements for new-build reactors and (c) the financing of radioactive waste management and decommissioning of new nuclear power plants in the last 12...

Bills Presented: Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (16 Jul 2009) has video

Paul Flynn: ...not being reliable, but neither is nuclear power. We are now exporting electricity from Britain to France because of the French problems with their nuclear power stations. The problems are the result of climate change because there is not enough water in the rivers to cool the power stations. Therefore, this source of power is dangerous and its proliferation could cost the world, but we...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Radioactive Materials: Thorp (2 Jul 2009)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for what reasons the THORP reprocessing plant is not operational; for how long he expects the plant to be non-operational; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sellafield: Insurance (4 Feb 2009)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on what date he was informed that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority planned to propose that the proposed insurance indemnification to be granted to the new management tier for Sellafield should be made available for prior scrutiny only to certain hon. Members in July 2008.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power: Insurance (19 Jan 2009)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 12 January, Official Report, column 124W, on nuclear power: insurance, for what reasons the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has located its wholly-owned subsidiary, Rutherford Indemnity Ltd, in Guernsey.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power: Insurance (13 Jan 2009)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to his statement of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 125WH, on nuclear industry finance, what consultations his Department conducted on the insurance arrangements for the management of Sellafield.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power: Finance (12 Jan 2009)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to the remarks by the Minister of State for Energy on 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 123WH, on nuclear industry finance, for what reasons a copy of the departmental minute on Sellafield indemnification was not placed in the Library following the letter of 14 July; and for what reasons the placement of the...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power: Insurance (12 Jan 2009)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which insurance companies insure nuclear installations owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority; in what country or countries they are based; and what criteria were applied in their selection.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power: Insurance (12 Jan 2009)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with reference to his statement of 19 November 2008, Official Report, column 126WH, on nuclear industry finance, what additional assessment the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority made of the availability of private sector insurance for the public body to manage Sellafield.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sellafield (26 Nov 2008)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the proposed new Parent Body Organisation for Sellafield led by URS Washington Group is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sellafield (19 Nov 2008)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter of 27 October 2008 from the Minister for Energy to the hon. Member for Newport West on nuclear indemnity for the new Sellafield Parent Body Organisation.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sellafield (11 Nov 2008)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 14 July 2008, Official Report, column 76W, on Sellafield, on what dates between 14 July and 6 October 2008 Ministers or officials of his Department met officials of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to discuss the indemnification of the successful bidder for the Parent Body Organisation chosen to manage...

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Ministers and Civil Servants (30 Oct 2008)

Paul Flynn: ...put senior civil servants in an impossible position, in which they had to become passive. As my hon. Friend said, that is probably the answer—that they are passive. If there is a need for change, and there usually is when a new Government who want to change things for the better come in, the people we need are not those who carry out the work passively, without being moved by any...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power: Safety (27 Oct 2008)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the oral response to the hon. Member for St. Albans (Anne Main) of 30 June 2008, Official Report, column 628W, what consideration the Government has given to risks other than those of safety in planning of nuclear expansion.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Floods: Radioactive Wastes (20 Jun 2007)

Paul Flynn: ...ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what consideration is given to the potential vulnerability to sea ingress from sea level rise or flooding inundation due to climate change of a site being considered for the suitability of its geology for a subterranean repository for long-lived radioactive waste; (2) what progress has been made in deciding the...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (14 Jun 2006)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the effect on the revenue to the National Insurance Fund of the increase in the climate change levy.

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (18 Apr 2006)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the arrangements to return the revenue from the increase in the climate change levy directly to business will result in any loss of revenue to the National Insurance Fund.

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (21 Jun 2005)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his answer of 13 June 2005, Official Report, column 48W, on the climate change levy, what the yield in each year was from each of the other taxes introduced in the past 10 years indicating offsetting cuts in employers' national insurance contributions.

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (13 Jun 2005)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the total yield of the climate change levy in each year since its introduction; what its expected yield is in the 2005–06 financial year; by how much the income of the National Insurance Fund has been reduced in each year since the introduction of the climate change levy by the off-setting cuts in employers' contributions; and whether...

Written Answers — International Development: Climate Change (2 Nov 2004)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether the UK's international development policies are assessed for their impact on climate change.