Results 1-12 of 12 for climate change speaker:Evan Harris
- [Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Darwin Initiative (30 Apr 2009)
Evan Harris: .... We are seeing not natural competition, but man-made competition, which is caused among other things by man's importation of invasive, non-indigenous species. When Darwin talks about evolution and changes, with some species dying out or turning into other species, he is talking about something that happens over eons rather than over the microscopically short time scales that we see today...
- [Mr. Roger Gale in the Chair] — Science and Discovery Centres (Funding) (15 May 2008)
Evan Harris: ...because such displays help people to make sense of science, which is sometimes misrepresented in the media. We are not talking just about stem cells, of course, but nanotechnology, vaccinations and climate change, which are just some of the areas that science explainers at the Newcastle science centre have gone into. The Centre for Life is right to say that it does not expect money for...
- Public Bill Committee: Equality Bill [Lords]: New clause 17 - DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF (8 Dec 2005)
Evan Harris: ...single equality Act, in the Committee's debate last Thursday, the Minister promised a Green Paper on discrimination law in the spring of 2006. We all know how long some seasons can last, given not just climate change, but Government deadlines for publication. The worry is that it might not be spring. However, assuming that it is spring—the Minister said a few moments ago in a...
- Public Bill Committee: Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill: Schedule 3 - Repeals (27 Oct 2005)
Evan Harris: ...from the previous test, which states that he must be ''satisfied that the person has done anything seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of''. The first point that I raise concerns the change in tense. The provision in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 talks about a person having done something. The provision in new clause 4 uses the present tense and, effectively,...
- Public Bill Committee: Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill: Schedule 3 - Repeals (25 Oct 2005)
Evan Harris: ...from the previous test, which states that he must be ''satisfied that the person has done anything seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of''. The first point that I raise concerns the change in tense. The provision in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 talks about a person having done something. The provision in new clause 4 uses the present tense and, effectively,...
- Nurses' Pay (6 Nov 2002)
Dr Evan Harris: ...we are responsible for the appropriate spending of Government money, and the Government have clear, although indirect, abilities to influence the matter through the evidence that they give and the climate that they create. I hope that in answering the points that have been raised, the Government will not hide behind the pay review body. The Minister may say, especially to Conservative...
- Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill: Schedule 1 — Consequential Amendments (10 Jun 2002)
Dr Evan Harris: ...of exporting. The Government have previously recognised that taxing employers for employment is a negative approach. As the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) said, when we debated the climate change levy in 1999, the Government said that they wanted to reduce tax on good things such as employment. Although we support the extra funding and support raising the extra money through...
- Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)
Dr Evan Harris: ...I shall not repeat what they said, but it is important to recognise that if the Government's only aim is to reduce the prevalence of smoking, they must recognise that their job is to help with that change, not just comment on it if it happens incidentally. The danger is that the Government may think that they brought about incidental changes in the prevalence of smoking. For example, a...
- Public Bill Committee: Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Bill: Clause 1 - Certain deceased men to be registered as fathers (25 Apr 2001)
Dr Evan Harris: ...tackle that issue, so the ruling stands. I do not believe that there is any doubt about that. The matter must, therefore, be considered carefully. We are discussing the Bill in the context of a climate in which consent is increasingly significant. In the light of events at Alder Hey hospital and elsewhere, there has been a focus on the need for consent, and for that consent to be...
- Medical Research (30 Jan 2001)
Dr Evan Harris: ...strong view on those matters. Yesterday, I was very pleased to hear the Home Secretary confirm the statement that he made in a press release last week--that the Government are minded not only to change section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986, but to apply an objective rather than subjective test to the offence of malicious communication. Other issues have to be considered, and some hon....
- Orders of the Day — Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill: Defences Available to Persons Who are Under Age (1 Mar 1999)
Dr Evan Harris: ...exists for heterosexuals, who have been misled about the age of their partners. That would offer protection against blackmail. The onus is on the Government to show why they will not accept such a change to the Bill. Whenever the Government are pressed on a matter that they feel may have some validity but about which they consider that it would not be politically expedient to pronounce,...
- Easter Floods (20 Oct 1998)
Dr Evan Harris: ...as it was not felt that the area would be affected. The Environment Agency should avoid using terms such as "100-year floods" to describe events that may become more frequent as a result of global climate change. Much work should be done to consider new areas for defence, and to improve warning systems. There was no warning in Kidlington, and that made the problems much worse. Will the...