Results 1-20 of 43 for climate change speaker:Linda Gilroy

DWP (Plymouth) (11 Nov 2009)

Linda Gilroy: ...I will try to adhere to what you are saying. I am proud that the Government whom I support are taking an approach different from the Conservatives' and that the leadership of our Prime Minister has changed the political weather, not just in this country, but internationally. We have said that we will not cut, but grow our way out of recession. Much of the investment is in the hands of the...

Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion): Schedule 22 — Repeals (27 Oct 2009) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...organisations and now the first low-carbon economic zone designation in the country, which will put us at the forefront of renewable energy technology—especially wave energy—and climate change and marine technologies, it is no wonder that I have taken such an interest, and I will continue to do so. The Bill has been amended and had clauses added, including those we have just...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Climate Change (Political Response) (21 Oct 2009) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...Development Agency. The Conservatives would abolish the RDAs, but that leadership has ensured that there are key priorities in our region on resource efficiency, renewable energy, waste management, climate change adaptation and low-carbon technologies. That has led to the region being the first to be given low-carbon economic area status as part of the Government's low-carbon industrial...

Plymouth CityBus (14 Oct 2009)

Linda Gilroy: ...cities, the distance is 400 metres. I hope the Minister agrees that the service is one that many would envy. We must surely aspire to create more such services if we are to meet the urgent demand of our climate change targets. The CityBus recipe is sensitive to change. The success of the 60 or more buses that run every hour between Derriford and the city centre allows other less well used...

Water Metering (26 Jun 2009) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...colleagues of mine. The Walker review is very welcome and comes at an opportune time. Plymouth and the south-west have certainly experienced their fair share of difficulties in the current economic climate. I hope and anticipate that the Walker review interim report, which is due to be published shortly, will offer us light at the end of the tunnel and ultimately, if we get it right, the...

Bill Presented: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [ Lords] (23 Jun 2009)

Linda Gilroy: ...will result in society getting better benefit from the use of the marine environment than previously, whilst its rich natural and cultural heritage are better protected". It further notes: "Climate change will have driven change both in relation to the environment itself and the way in which people use it. Renewable energy developments will be commonplace"— well, we hope they will;...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Budgets (23 Apr 2009)

Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what mechanisms are used to set the UK's carbon budgets.

Business of the House: Armed Forces Personnel (29 Jan 2009) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...doing on our behalf, how they feel about it, and how their kit and equipment are serving them and standing up to the harsh treatment that it gets in the high-tempo operations and different terrain and climate. I wanted to see for myself the medical services and find out whether they were as good as our Defence Committee report suggested last year. I had many other questions too numerous to...

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

Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the prospects for including water companies in the intelligent metering roll-out.

Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Emissions (13 Nov 2008) has video

Linda Gilroy: I welcome that progress, but my right hon. Friend will know that many of my constituents are particularly interested in climate change. Does he understand their concern that the Government are not yet moving fast enough on issues such as getting the balance right between air, road and rail travel? Does he acknowledge that they also worry about credits, which may be a way of buying our way out...

Housing (Plymouth) (7 Oct 2008)

Linda Gilroy: ...2003 they have secured private sector houses for 505 families through a highly successful leasing scheme. That is a model of exceptionally good practice and merits support for growth in the present climate. I was prompted to look into housing in Plymouth by, among other things, a Saturday morning roving surgery that brought me face to face with a woman who had moved, with her children,...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (26 Jun 2008)

Linda Gilroy: ...to follow the logic of where this argument is coming from. I had a lot of sympathy with what some Opposition Members were saying, particularly because of the discussions that I have had with the climate change panel that I have been working with throughout the pre-legislative process. A lot of debate stems from the question of whether or not there is an analogy with the Monetary Policy...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (26 Jun 2008)

Linda Gilroy: ...’s evidence, the complexity is significantly greater. I thought that there was an inherent logic to what my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Test tried to explain. The Committee on Climate Change is advisory, so the Government could of course disagree. I shall finish on this point—my brief is very much not a Whips’ brief, so the Whip is probably thinking,...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (26 Jun 2008)

Linda Gilroy: Has the hon. Gentleman had the opportunity to look at the oral evidence on the independent Committee on Climate Change given to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on 26 March? At that time, Adair Turner himself said that “you cannot have a body for climate change which is given complete independence in pursuing a target”.

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (24 Jun 2008)

Linda Gilroy: ...to using a similar framework. It is for those reasons that I have not signed the early-day motion and stood firm in explaining that position to my constituents, some of whom are members of my climate change panel and many of whom are among the 1,600 students who study marine and environmental science at Plymouth University and the 450 marine scientists who are very knowledgeable about...

Public Bill Committee: Climate Change Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (24 Jun 2008)

Linda Gilroy: ...Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to clarify my point. It was rooted in his earlier observation that the credibility of politicians is low, while the credibility of those on the Committee on Climate Change is much higher. The people who need to be persuaded to take action will therefore be much more likely to sign up to doing so if target setting can be accompanied by a delivery plan.

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...the debate so far. It is right that scientists are at the forefront of the evidence base for what we are setting out to achieve. Instincts also go a long way, and I especially thank the local climate change panel that advised me and helped me to contribute what I hope were informed comments to some of the early consultation stages that led to the Bill. The panel includes scientists and...

[Mrs. Joan Humble in the Chair] — Water Strategy (18 Mar 2008)

Linda Gilroy: ...goal, following trials, we must also consider the effectiveness of different types of social and block tariff, paying particular attention to how they can affect vulnerable households. The remaining goals relate to pace of change, universal metering—we have heard how two thirds of people in the south-west are already on meters—and the cost of metering, including smart metering....

Devonport and the Royal Navy (5 Mar 2008) has video

Linda Gilroy: ...is against that background that the announcement about the 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers needs to be viewed. Britain is one of a handful of NATO countries that has largely got to grips with making changes to ensure that our armed forces, and their equipment, are relevant to the challenges that we face today and the threats that we may face tomorrow, and that they are interoperable with...