Results 1-20 of 20 for climate change speaker:Damian Green

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (13 Jul 2009)

Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the number of households in (a) Ashford, (b) Kent and (c) the UK which were in fuel poverty in the last year for which figures are available.

Public Bill Committee: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]: Clause 42 (11 Jun 2009)

Damian Green: ... allow the Secretary of State by regulation to amend the length of the qualifying periods for citizenship. We had a long discussion earlier today about the problems of quasi-retrospection—of changing things in ways that might be challenged by the courts, as they have been under the highly skilled migrant programme. A huge power has been slipped in here by which the Secretary of...

[Mr. Jimmy Hood in the Chair] — Immigration Control (2 Nov 2006)

Damian Green: ...where she made a number of powerful points that we all hope the Minister will take on board, but for her remarks on the heating. I had assumed that in the developing cross-party consensus about climate change and global warning we had decided to set an example by keeping the Chamber unheated throughout the year. I want to pay more than the conventional tributes to the Committee for the...

Industry and the Environment (19 May 2005)

Damian Green: ...self-proclaimed political twilight desperately scrambling for a legacy. I am afraid that he will not find it in this collection of Bills, nor will he find it in his record on environmental matters. Climate change is one of the big issues for him—he has been known to declare that it is the biggest issue facing us. At other times, the biggest issue facing us can be education, Africa or...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (15 Oct 2001)

Mr Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department have to visit international conferences relating to climate change in the next 12 months.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Climate Change (11 Jul 2001)

Mr Damian Green: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) what responsibility he has for developing the UK's climate change strategy; (2) what plans he has to visit international conferences relating to climate change in the next 12 months; (3) when he next intends to meet the French Environment Minister for discussions on climate change.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Nuclear Power (5 Jul 2001)

Mr Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what role nuclear power will play in the UK's climate change strategy; and if she will make a statement.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Sinks (3 Jul 2001)

Mr Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what role is played by carbon sinks in the Government's climate change strategy.

Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Climate Change (27 Jun 2001)

Mr Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what plans the Government have to alter planning policy guidance to promote renewable energy as part of the UK's climate change strategy.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Corus(Llanwern) (31 Jan 2001)

Mr Damian Green: ...that some of the problems—only some, I agree—that have led to this terrible crisis are the result of explicit Government policies, which have led to business rates being too high; the climate change levy, which particularly affects steelworks; and the web of bureaucracy and interference that they have tied around manufacturing industry? There are clearly faults on many sides in...

Orders of the Day — Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Bill: Short Title, Commencement and Extent. (21 Jul 2000)

Mr Damian Green: ...widespread support throughout the House, but I take some quiet pride in the fact that it has been piloted to the next stage by someone on the Conservative Benches, and that the most significant change that has been achieved between Second and Third Reading—nailing down the Government to a 15-year target—also came from pressure from this side. This is not a partisan point, and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Energy Taxation (18 May 2000)

Mr Damian Green: What recent representations he has received from businesses on the climate change levy. [121377]

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Energy Taxation (18 May 2000)

Mr Damian Green: ...another business representation on the levy, which, incidentally, gives the lie to what he has just said about the horticulture industry? Mr. Peter Wensak, who runs a nursery, has written to the climate change levy secretariat to say: The CO2…generated within my glasshouses is consumed by the plants … The net effect to the outside atmosphere is nil. Your proposal is that I...

Orders of the Day — Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Bill (10 Mar 2000)

Mr Damian Green: ...to fuel poverty, there are clearly significant environmental issues. I agree with Friends of the Earth, which has said: the elimination of fuel poverty is essential to meet Britain's international climate change obligations. … A policy of paying people to heat the skies above their homes is simply unsustainable. We could stretch the use of the word "unsustainable", because the policy...

Orders of the Day — Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Bill (10 Mar 2000)

Mr Damian Green: ...ways—the principles behind the Bill support them—in which we can improve our environmental performance without disadvantaging anyone. Those of us in the Opposition who have opposed the climate change levy, which puts a burden on businesses, and the Government's wild increases in petrol duty—which fall on many poorer people, particularly in rural areas—are...

Climate Change (27 Oct 1999)

Mr Damian Green: I join other hon. Members in congratulating the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Mr. Brake), who deserves our thanks for allowing us to debate the important issue of climate change. I am also happy to assure hon. Members, such as the hon. Member for Bury, North (Mr. Chaytor), that Conservative Members take climate change seriously. Although there is still some scientific controversy...

Climate Change (27 Oct 1999)

Mr Damian Green: I am happy to receive the usual confirmation that the Liberal Democrats are capable of changing policy in the course of a one and a half hour debate. The hon. Member for East Carmarthen and Dinefwr (Mr. Williams) made a very important point on forestry and the use of trees as a counter-balance to CO2 emissions. I entirely support him on that important initiative, and urge him and other hon....

Energy Tax (20 Jul 1999)

Mr Damian Green: ...to do with raising tax than controlling emissions, which we all want to do. Does he agree that the game is given away by the fact that, of the money that the Government intend to raise from the climate change levy, a derisory amount will be reinvested in renewable and sustainable energy sources, showing that they are not serious about reducing emissions, but are very serious about raising...

Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords] (8 Apr 1998)

Mr Damian Green: ...extremely unusual for any Minister in any Government. It would be unusual enough for a Prime Minister, but it is particularly unusual for any other Minister. Those achievements have transformed the climate of debate in Britain on law and order and the measures appropriate to achieve its objectives. One of the greatest tributes that could be paid to my right hon. and learned Friend is the...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Mortgage Interest Payments (15 Jul 1997)

Mr Damian Green: ...the measures in the Budget that will damage the housing market will not be made up for by any rescue packages. There are some who agree with the hon. Member for Dudley, North that there should be changes. Some groups are not instinctively in favour of home ownership and have argued for different types of housing subsidy. Even they, however, are not in favour of the measure. The Shelter...