Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:Dominic Grieve

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fines (3 Mar 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether any administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department.

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (27 Feb 2008)

Dominic Grieve: I echo the Minister in regretting that we have not had the chance to consider the competences and climate change amendments. It is clear that this debate has not been time wasted; there has been no filibustering and there have been important matters to be discussed and debated. That shows how woefully unsatisfactory is the Government's timetable for the consideration of these matters. The...

Public Bill Committee: Racial and Religious Hatred Bill: Schedule - Hatred against persons on racial or religious grounds (30 Jun 2005)

Dominic Grieve: ...hatred under the old law, or someone can commit the offence because in all the circumstances of the case it was likely that racial hatred would be incited. With the Bill, the Government seek to change the test so that when religious and racial hatred continue together, it should come under the new test that “having regard to all the circumstances the words, behaviour or material are...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 62 - Cases that may be retried (16 Jan 2003)

Mr Dominic Grieve: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of the big changes that has occurred in the past 20 years has been the willingness of the press to continue arguing, for instance, that someone has committed an offence after their acquittal? In the old days, an acquittal was final, and there were several cases in which libel actions were brought and substantial damages obtained. That is now not the...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 38 - Application by prosecution for trial to be (14 Jan 2003)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...problem was not only one of intimidation; in respect of offences linked to sectarian violence, it was unfortunately impossible in certain areas to obtain juries who were not too influenced by the climate of sectarianism to return a true verdict, whether or not they had been intimated. The problem went beyond that of jury tampering; it was difficult in certain circumstances to find juries...

Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill (19 Nov 2001)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...action sets off another. The greater the tendency of this Parliament to legislate and to raise the temperature, the greater the knock-on effect, which can go far beyond this country, in creating a climate where people want to suppress activities that they think may be prejudicial to the safety of the state. We have heard powerful contributions from several of my right hon. and hon....

Scottish Economy (27 Mar 2001)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ..., from 1979 to 1996 earnings in Scotland had increased in real terms by 33 per cent. for men and a staggering 60 per cent. for women, although the latter increase was undoubtedly due in part to the changes in working practices for women and the great growth of parity in pay. Nevertheless, those are major transformations. One had only to visit Glasgow in the early 1990s to see the extent to...

Orders of the Day — Police (Northern Ireland) Bill (6 Jun 2000)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...Northern Ireland—that there are diametrically different views on whether the Belfast agreement is setting up a structure where United Kingdom sovereignty remains but tremendous institutional changes are implemented to create harmony and participation by all people, with the prospect of reunification if a majority ever wants it in future, or whether we are proceeding through a process...

Estimates Day: Scotland Office (16 Dec 1999)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ...has diminished. It was suggested in the debate that the south-east Asia crisis is one reason for that decline. Although I do not disagree with that, it is also worth considering whether the fiscal climate that we are creating is attractive to business. Opposition Members question very much whether it is. The point was made very forcefully by my hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire...

Energy Tax (20 Jul 1999)

Mr Dominic Grieve: .... What is necessary energy use and what is unnecessary—if not decorative, something that we can do without? Until we start to address those questions, we will never set in motion the culture change that will ultimately sweep through the whole issue of global warming: just as people will change their habits domestically, so they will insist that every possible cost-saving and...

Energy Tax (20 Jul 1999)

Mr Dominic Grieve: Is it not the case that, in France, there is no belief in climate change and global warming at an official level?

London Bombings (26 Apr 1999)

Mr Dominic Grieve: I join the Home Secretary in condemning these appalling crimes and, as a former vice-chairman of the Lambeth police community consultative group, in his praise of that group and the remarkable change that it has brought about in intercommunity relations in Lambeth in the 10 years since I was involved in it. Does he agree that it is important in dealing with such problems to isolate those who...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (11 Mar 1999)

Mr Dominic Grieve: ..., I awaited the Budget with some excitement. I am a member of the Select Committee on Environmental Audit and I am mindful of the fact that fiscal instruments are one method by which we may achieve changes in people's behaviour to promote environmental goods and prevent what are commonly called environmental bads. However. one has to be careful. If we start inhibiting wealth creation, we...