Results 1-19 of 19 for climate change speaker:Nick Gibb

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Fire Safety (Schools) (19 May 2009)

Nick Gibb: ...Lancashire (Rosie Cooper) mentioned, of putting three MPs—one from each party—into a controlled fire. That sounds like an interesting experiment, but I am not sure how advisable it would be in today's climate. There is no doubt that schools can take sensible measures to protect themselves against the threat of arson. They can co-operate with fire programmes, such as those that...

Public Bill Committee: : Clause 57 (17 Mar 2009)

Nick Gibb: ...reorganisation, said: “The cost is already set out in the impact assessment; we have not memorised it. It is on the record.” Again in response to my hon. Friend, he went on to say: “This change is not a cost-saving exercise; that is not why we are making it. In the immediate term, it will be cost-neutral; in the long term, my expectation is that the new structures will be...

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

Nick Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many questions for written answer have been tabled to his Department since its creation; and how many have been (a) answered substantively and (b) not answered on grounds of disproportionate cost.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Science: Curriculum (17 May 2007)

Nick Gibb: ...for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 20 April 2007, Official Report, column 701W, on science: curriculum, for what reason specific mention of (a) role of lung structure in gas exchange, (b) tectonic processes, (c) geomorphological processes, (d) weather and climate, (e) ecosystems, (f) population distribution and change, (g) the growth and development of settlements...

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Geography: Curriculum (19 Apr 2007)

Nick Gibb: ...by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority as part of the secondary curriculum review he expects pupils to learn about (a) tectonic processes, (b) geomorphological processes, (c) weather and climate, (d) ecosystems, (e) population distribution and change and (f) the growth and development of settlements.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (17 Mar 2005)

Mr Nick Gibb: When the Minister discusses climate change, will he consider its effect on rising sea levels and ensure that sea defences in places such as Middleton-on-Sea in my constituency are given a much higher priority in the priority scoring system, which is putting their sea defences at risk?

Education, Culture, Media and Sport (15 Nov 2002)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...point. They do not believe us when we use them, especially when they run counter to people's daily experience or common sense. I know that the Secretary of State is sincere in his desire to change the way in which we conduct politics in this country. I admire him for that, so I urge him to look carefully at the PISA report before continuing the habit of his colleagues and previous...

Renewable Energy (5 Apr 2001)

Mr Nick Gibb: The hon. Gentleman should have listened to me. I pointed out that renewable energy is not the answer to the Kyoto targets, the greenhouse gas emission problem and climate change, because it will not deliver the cuts in CO2 in the time required or at a realistic cost. If the Government are serious about reducing CO2 emissions to the levels agreed internationally for 2010 and beyond, they must...

Renewable Energy (5 Apr 2001)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...and renewable technology to be developed, so that the cost per unit can fall towards market spot prices. However, if we believe that renewables are the answer to meeting future international climate change obligations, we are living in make-believe land. The facts are harsh. As the Minister said, only 2.8 per cent. of our electricity is generated from renewable sources, and the vast...

Renewable Energy (5 Apr 2001)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...all, it was Conservatives who went to Rio and agreed all the initial arrangements. It was not a Labour initiative. We are fully behind reductions in CO2 emissions and the programme dealing with climate change concerns. The Government are coming out with a huge amount of humbug. The decommissioning of the Magnox nuclear power stations will present Britain with a large problem. We can meet...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Energy Market (18 Jan 2001)

Mr Nick Gibb: ..., how helpful does the Minister think it is to British industry to make it suffer the additional costs of another new tax on its energy bills from 1 April this year, following the imposition of the climate change levy? If the Minister really does care about the competitiveness of British industry—and she should note that employment has fallen this month, for the first...

British Trade International (21 Dec 2000)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...goods and second-largest exporter of services. About 5 per cent. of all goods exported in the world originate in Britain. Given the Government's onslaught against manufacturing, exemplified by the climate change levy and £5 billion a year in higher regulatory burdens, whether that record can be sustained is a moot question, but if it proves to be sustainable, it will not be thanks to...

British Trade International (21 Dec 2000)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...having been supportive of one of the Minister's colleagues. The DTI seems to be the departmental whipping boy of the new Labour Government. The Treasury piles on business taxes such as IR35 and the climate change levy with barely a squeak from the Secretary of State, despite the huge damage that they are causing to the IT and manufacturing sectors. There are turf battles with the...

Orders of the Day — BNFL(Public-Private Partnership) (8 Nov 2000)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...Times recently reported that demand for electricity in London alone would increase by 20 per cent. in the next four years, solely due to the building of 10 internet hotels there. The draft climate change programme published by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions showed that, far from our achieving a 12.5 per cent. or a 20 per cent. reduction, CO2 levels would be...

Orders of the Day — BNFL(Public-Private Partnership) (8 Nov 2000)

Mr Nick Gibb: ..., was actually promoted, with the right hon. Lady's assent, to the board of BNFL. Is she confident that the Sellafield culture that many felt was at the root of the data falsification problem has changed? Those concerns echo the comment in paragraph 80 of the Select Committee report, which says that the extent of change in managerial arrangements is rather less than appears. The...

Orders of the Day — Utilities Bill: Sources of Electricity Generation (19 Apr 2000)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...in October 1998. My hon. Friend the Member for Blaby also made the important point, which had not occurred to me, that the new clause would enable the public to assess the workability of the climate change levy, and to see how much damage it is doing to British industry and to the aims and objects of the levy. He also suggested that the Government were resisting the Liberal Democrat...

Future of Rover (16 Mar 2000)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...over this Parliament; more corporation tax; more stamp duty on business transactions; more duty on diesel; a new pension funds tax that puts up business' pension costs as well as its capital costs; the climate change levy; and IR35. All those measures are damaging to the British economy, to businesses that are trying to survive in a fiercely competitive world, to businesses large and small...

Car Pricing (20 Oct 1999)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...whether and by how much they contribute to higher prices in the UK, not merely in the motor industry but in other areas, for example through higher taxes. The Minister is a great supporter of the climate change levy. What effect is it having and will it have on the manufacture of cars in this country? There are more and more regulations. The proposed new directive on end of vehicle life in...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (4 Jul 1997)

Mr Nick Gibb: ...subject of intense academic debate, to which I have no intention of adding—it is thanks to that visit that, from 1929 onwards, the town became known as Bognor Regis, the King's Bognor. The climate that led King George V's doctors to recommend his going to Bognor has attracted many generations of people to retire to the constituency. Indeed, 36 per cent. of its population today are...