Results 1-20 of 26 for climate change speaker:Andrew George

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Clause 2 — General objective (27 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew George: ...context, and another is the implication that the MMO may not have the technical competence to assess them. My hope is that the MMO will work in concert with the IPC and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. I cannot accept the hon. Gentleman's argument, because surely there will be formal communication between those agencies and the Department.

UK Grocery Market (14 Oct 2009)

Andrew George: ...the establishment of an ombudsman to oversee a code of practice. The critical point is that the supermarket code of practice was found to have failed in the sense that suppliers living in a climate of fear feared the consequences of making any kind of complaint. The supermarket code of practice had become relatively useless. The Competition Commission therefore proposed having an ombudsman...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Schedule 1 (2 Jul 2009)

Andrew George: ...very efficiently indeed. MMO resourcing is particularly important as the renewables industry understands that none of the energy officials currently working in either the Department of Energy and Climate Change or the MFA will be transferring to the MMO. That gives rise to concern over the experience and knowledge base of the new organisation. Requiring the MMO to report on its own...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Schedule 1 (2 Jul 2009)

Andrew George: ...and Rural Affairs and not to other Departments, and therefore that the organisation might have too much of an environmental base and might not be sufficiently considerate of the Government’s climate change objectives. Those wider, global conservation considerations must surely be part of the MMO’s activities. The hon. Member for East Devon mentioned the South West of England...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (20 Apr 2009)

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how his Department assesses the value for money of services provided under the Warm Front scheme.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty: Mobile Homes (2 Mar 2009)

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what plans his Department has to reduce fuel poverty among park home residents.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty: Travelling People (2 Mar 2009)

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what plans his Department has to reduce fuel poverty among Gypsy and Traveller communities.

Garden Land Development (3 Feb 2009)

Andrew George: ...is a recognition that such areas make a valuable contribution to the life of our towns and cities. As has been highlighted, garden land development can have an impact on biodiversity, drainage, climate change and aesthetics, and the creation of such developments can lead to neighbourhood conflicts. Also, as hon. Members have said, such developments do not necessarily address the urgent...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (25 Nov 2008)

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether he has considered the merits of allowing regional variations in grant limit levels under the Warm Front scheme to account for regional variations in the cost of work under the scheme.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (25 Nov 2008)

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of grant limit levels under the Warm Front scheme.

Affordable Housing (8 Oct 2008)

Andrew George: ...the guidance myself. There are two versions, but the one to which the Minister referred—as he properly said in our previous debate, it was produced prior to the Secretary of State's proposed changes to the regional spatial strategy—clearly constrains Ministers. That is clear as far as those stages of the development of the regional spatial strategy are concerned. However,...

Public Bill Committee: Housing and Regeneration Bill: Clause 34 (15 Jan 2008)

Andrew George: I shall be brief in view of the time. The clause as currently written is thin, given the Government’s commitment on climate change, the Climate Change Bill, the endorsement of Stern and everything else. All that the clause says is that the HCA “may” contribute, but it may not. There is no commitment there whatsoever. While the objectives of the agency are worthwhile in...

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (Programme) (No. 3): Clause 5 — Boundary Committee's powers (24 Oct 2007)

Andrew George: ...and Shropshire by dragging the debate in a direction just beyond the south-west extremes of England into the Duchy of Cornwall. I wish to address amendments Nos. 2 to 4 in particular. The change in relation to the Secretary of State from any "person he believes to have an interest" to "such other persons as he considers appropriate" gathers to the Secretary of State a great deal of power...

Arms Exports (24 Jan 2007)

Andrew George: ...—and worse the country—and damage their reputation as an upholder of standards and a champion of anti-corruption. A parliamentary answer provided for me on 9 March by the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, who was the Minister for Trade at the time, states that export credit guarantees "have been issued to BAE Systems and its subsidiaries in the last five years...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Climate Change (19 Dec 2006)

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what account the forthcoming Climate Change Policy Statement will take of the impact of out-of-town grocery shopping on climate change.

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Kate Barker Reviews (12 Dec 2006)

Andrew George: ...intended that money to be used. As one of those who led the campaign to have the council tax rebate removed, it was certainly my hope that any additional revenue created as a result of that change could be directed at addressing the problem of lack of affordable housing in areas such as my own—although it would admittedly only scratch the surface. Two years ago, I was pleased and...

Orders of the Day: Communities and Local Government/Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (20 Nov 2006)

Andrew George: ...of Scilly council, that clearly do not fit those norms. The debate was interesting in many ways. It started off with the predictable and tiresome tribalism that is inevitable during the opening exchanges in such debates, but interestingly, as the debate gathered pace, and as Back Benchers became more involved, a strong body of support emerged on the issue of climate change. I hope that the...

Written Answers — International Development: Developing Countries (25 Jul 2006)

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will take steps (a) to co-ordinate and (b) to implement an integrated approach across Departments to deal with climate change and poverty reduction in developing countries.

Written Answers — International Development: Developing Countries (24 Jul 2006)

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on his Department's commitments to address climate change and environmental degradation in developing countries.