Results 1-20 of 42 for climate change speaker:Peter Hain

Written Ministerial Statements — Wales: Legislative Programme (Wales) (19 Nov 2009)

Peter Hain: ...the regulators to ensure that social tariffs for energy suppliers are set to help those vulnerable to fuel poverty. The Bill will also extend the duties of the regulator, OFGEM, to ensure it takes climate change and consumer protection into account. Financial Services Bill: The Bill will strengthen the financial system and will continue to respond to the global financial crisis to lay the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Economy (11 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Hain: ... the Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) has lobbied me hard on this. We are working together to ensure that we can take it forward. I am very pleased that the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has prioritised it, and I know that the Welsh Assembly Government candidates standing for the Labour leadership, and therefore for the First Minister's position, have all supported...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Economy (11 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Hain: No, not at all, because the decision is taken by the UK Government. It has not just my backing but that of my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and the Prime Minister, and it also has the redoubtable backing of my hon. Friend the Member for Ynys Môn. We intend to take the project forward in the future, and I am sure that when we do, it will have the...

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Hain: ...country forward—not how we should reform parliamentary expenses, because that will have been done, but who should take us forward to meet the big challenges of the global economic crisis, of climate change and all the other issues before us.

Written Ministerial Statements — Wales: Government's Legislative Programme (Application to Wales) (7 Nov 2007)

Peter Hain: ...on UK Ministers in those areas in relation to England. These are: Health and Social Care Bill Sale of Student Loans Bill Children and Young People Bill Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill Climate Change Bill Energy Bill Housing and Regeneration Bill Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill The Government are committed to delivering devolution and this Session, the first since...

Written Answers — Wales: Tidal Power: Severn Estuary (18 Jul 2007)

Peter Hain: ...Agency and other key interested parties to look strategically at the tidal resource in the UK. As our EWP states, the SDC launched a study, the purpose of which is to consider whether the impact of climate change justifies the potential costs and benefits of all tidal technologies including the barrage and tidal lagoons, and their public acceptability. The SDC aims to publish the report...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Pensions Policy (3 Jul 2007)

Peter Hain: ...Forgetting the shameless opportunism of the Conservatives in attacking a policy that they themselves launched, let us look instead at the way in which our corporation tax reforms have improved the climate for investment and the competitiveness of United Kingdom businesses—an approach that has delivered, over 10 years, the longest unbroken period of economic growth on record, the best...

Written Answers — Wales: Floods (11 Jun 2007)

Peter Hain: ...in areas at risk. I also understand that Welsh Ministers are currently implementing new flood risk management arrangements to enable improved responses to the increased risk presented by climate change. Work carried out by the Environment Agency and Welsh local authorities to manage these risks is supported financially by the Welsh Assembly Government, who have increased their funding for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Severn Estuary (Electricity) (6 Jun 2007)

Peter Hain: ...of recreation, transport, housing, industrial and commercial property, tourism and infrastructure development. My hon. Friend is right that renewable energy has enormous potential not only to fight climate change but to strengthen the economy and to create more jobs.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Severn Estuary (Electricity) (6 Jun 2007)

Peter Hain: ...'s attention that the experience at La Rance river in France is that biodiversity can increase as a result of the construction of a barrage. Also, if we are not prepared to take bold steps to fight climate change, biodiversity will be, in a sense, a secondary matter. That will be the case if we get the terrible consequences to life on this planet that would come from climate change, which...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Severn Estuary (Electricity) (6 Jun 2007)

Peter Hain: ...and sustained as much as possible in home-grown forms, so that we are not dependent on fossil fuels imported from abroad, including from many unstable areas of the world. So this is not just a climate change but a security of supply issue. However, I see no conflict here between strong renewable energy and considering the nuclear option in Anglesey, for example, if that is appropriate. The...

Mtas: Cross-border Issues (6 Jun 2007)

Peter Hain: ...'s strategic and legislative programme for the coming months. He has already announced in plenary on 25 May that he will bring forward proposals in relation to child poverty, affordable housing, climate change and better access to health care.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Energy Review (21 Mar 2007)

Peter Hain: Numerous ones, as we want to combat climate change and secure our future energy supply.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Energy Review (21 Mar 2007)

Peter Hain: ...with my hon. Friend, and I commend her and the work going on at Bangor university, which I visited last year. I was enormously impressed by its attempt to make Wales a leader in the fight against climate change. We therefore hope that Opposition parties will back our policies to make sure that renewable, clean energy is the dominant energy supply in Wales.

Point of Order: Welsh Affairs (1 Mar 2007)

Peter Hain: ...it is the real jewel in the crown of the north-east Wales economy and, in many respects, of the Welsh economy as a whole. At the same time, Wales must adapt to the huge and growing threat of climate change—the defining challenge of this era and beyond, which puts at risk the very future of humankind. It is predicted that global average temperatures could rise by 5.8° C and sea...

Point of Order: Welsh Affairs (1 Mar 2007)

Peter Hain: .... They should not have gone up at all, but the fact that they have gone up by such a small proportion, compared with growth, shows that we are going in the right direction. We have to do more. The climate change levy, which was opposed by her party, is an important part of that, as is the drive towards renewable energy. I hope that she will have a word with her boss, the Leader of the...

Point of Order: Welsh Affairs (1 Mar 2007)

Peter Hain: ..., but I hope that it does not signal opposition to the barrage. There will in future be no wildlife in the Severn estuary—or pretty well anywhere else—if we are not careful, and if climate-changing emissions continue on their upward trajectory and wreak their devastation.

Written Answers — Wales: Energy Technologies Institute (11 Jan 2007)

Peter Hain: ..., reliable and cost-effective low-carbon energy technologies towards commercial deployment. The institute will play a major role in technology developments internationally in support of the UK's climate change goals. On 14 September 2006, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry published a prospectus setting out the aims of the institute to attract additional private sector...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Northern Ireland (16 Oct 2006)

Peter Hain: ...get the arrangements for community restorative justice schemes right and if we do not satisfy everybody, broadly speaking, we will not do them. It would be better not to have them than to create a climate of uncertainty or ambiguity about what is involved. On recruitment standards to the PSNI, the Patten report was clear that people with serious paramilitary backgrounds should not join the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Ring-fenced Funds (11 Oct 2006)

Peter Hain: ...the leader of the green agenda in the United Kingdom. There are also 100 per cent. grants to low-income households to install solar panels on their roofs, alternative microgeneration schemes and a change in building regulations, so that, from April 2008, no new build in Northern Ireland—whether it be a hospital, a school, a factory, an office or a home—can proceed without...