Results 1-7 of 7 for climate change speaker:Barbara Follett

Conservation Areas (21 Oct 2009)

Barbara Follett: ...reasons I have given, to leave matters to local decision making, because local people know best what suits them. The Government's approach to conservation areas is based on positive management of change, so that the particular special interest and character—my hon. Friend outlined that so well in respect of the Moor Pool estate—that led to an area being designated in the first...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Climate Change (12 Jun 2009)

Barbara Follett: Operational measures the Department for Culture, Media and Sport took to adapt to climate change included the introduction of a new waste management scheme which ensured that as much is recycled as possible. With the help of the Carbon Trust, the Department worked with manufacturers to pilot an innovative lighting scheme which reduced the energy used and improved efficiency. The Department...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Climate Change (12 Jun 2009)

Barbara Follett: It is not currently possible to provide estimates of the potential costs and savings over the next three years. The Government are undertaking a climate change risk assessment and economic analysis, which will provide estimates of the costs and benefits of adaptation to the UK. This analysis will be presented to Parliament within three years of the Climate Change Act coming in to force.

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Departmental Scientists (31 Mar 2009)

Barbara Follett: ...scientific advice and research in 2008-09 is £1,000,000. The equivalent budget in 2007-08 was used to fund a variety of projects ranging from demand for culture, attitudes to the Olympic legacy to climate change impacts on our sectors and purchasing tourism statistics. We do not keep staff records based on degree content or classification so cannot say how many staff have a science or...

Arbroath Abbey (27 Jan 2009)

Barbara Follett: ...on the revision of the operational guidelines, which govern how the convention is implemented, our encouragement of the world heritage committee in developing a strategy for managing the impact of climate change on world heritage sites—Abu Simbel being a clear example of that—and our supporting developing nations in putting together their own nominations for world heritage...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Climate Change (15 Dec 2008)

Barbara Follett: Following a literature review on the effect of climate change on cultural and sporting assets, the Department is commissioning research to investigate the effects of climate change on the culture and leisure industries. We will consider what adaptation and mitigation strategies might be needed in light of the findings.

Innovation and Enterprise (25 Jun 1999)

Mrs Barbara Follett: ...was confined to the northern part of these islands rather than spread throughout them. In the past 60 years, Britain has given the world the computer and antibiotics, and has pioneered the life-changing work on the DNA helix. Unfortunately, that innovative genius has not always had sufficient entrepreneurial follow through. That is why Europe's largest pharmaceutical research and...