Results 1-20 of 25 for climate change speaker:David Heath

Regional Select Committee (West Midlands) (2 Nov 2009) has video

David Heath: ...that we have almost a minute in which we can find perhaps arguments on either side about whether the hon. Member for Burton (Mrs. Dean) should replace the Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Kidney), as the motion suggests. Debate adjourned ( Standing Order No. 9(3)) Debate to be resumed tomorrow.

Business of the House (22 Oct 2009) has video

David Heath: ...past week, so may we have a debate on the position of the banks and, ideally, on reform of the banks—something that the Government have clearly decided they cannot face? Before the debate on climate change, may we have a debate on statistics? Sir Michael Scholar, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, is again calling the Government to account for abusing statistics—this...

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

David Heath: I have only one minute left. What we have done in this House is considerable, and the Government should take credit for the good things that they have achieved, such as the Climate Change Act. They arrived at it by dint of pressure from all parts of the House, but it is of value. They rejected feed-in tariffs for a long time but eventually accepted them—although I agree that the design...

Bill Presented: Food, Farming and the Environment (18 Jun 2009) has video

David Heath: ...produce and for there to be reductions in our industries. There is not only an economic but a moral imperative to reverse that trend, particularly given what we all know is coming—climate change and the need to feed an ever-increasing population across the world. We should be making best use of our natural advantages. The decline in what we consume of our produce is quite noticeable....

Bill Presented: Clause 16 — Rates and rebates from September 2009 (13 May 2009) has video

David Heath: ...the economic injustice that I have described, we must also deal with one undesirable outcome of an otherwise desirable policy. I think that we all strongly support the idea that, to help to tackle climate change, we must try to reduce our reliance on cars and our use of fuel. We understand that, but the principle that that can be achieved by adding to the cost of fuel works only if there...

Prayers: Fuel Poverty Bill (20 Mar 2009) has video

David Heath: ...issue. With respect to the overall duty, I see a strong parallel between the overall duty in the Bill and the duty that the Government have not only encouraged but extolled around the world in the Climate Change Act 2008—a duty that also falls on the Secretary of State and with which, I understand, colleagues have no problems.

Prayers: Fuel Poverty Bill (20 Mar 2009) has video

David Heath: May I bring the hon. Gentleman back to my earlier intervention? Will he tell me how my proposals differ from the situation under the Climate Change Act 2008?

Prayers: Fuel Poverty Bill (20 Mar 2009) has video

David Heath: ...for the fact that that is happening. Also of course, for every person who dies from a cold-related death, many more are made ill or put in hospital as a result of cold. Given that we all identify climate change as the biggest and most urgent issue we face, it cannot be right that so many homes in our country leak energy—energy is wasted simply because the houses are not up to the...

Prayers: Fuel Poverty Bill (20 Mar 2009) has video

David Heath: ...the 2000 Act. He went on to say that "we aim to eradicate the range of consequences of fuel poverty". The Minister who sits on the Treasury Bench today, the Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Joan Ruddock), in giving evidence to the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on 14 January—only a couple of...

Prayers: Fuel Poverty Bill (20 Mar 2009) has video

David Heath: ...provide sufficient flexibility within the strategy for the Government to adjust to circumstances and apply resources as appropriate. We have to decide whether we are serious about dealing with climate change and ending fuel poverty. We cannot say, "But it might get a bit difficult." It is a priority. People are dying every year, so I make no apology for making it a priority.

Prayers: Fuel Poverty Bill (20 Mar 2009) has video

David Heath: ...take up such measures. The fuel poverty annual report required under clause 4 is very much in line with what the Government are already doing, because of previous legislation. Clause 5 deals with changes to the number of properties involved and provides flexibility for the Government either to accelerate or to decelerate—I regard that as unlikely—the scheme to meet changing...

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Agriculture (South-West) (20 Jan 2009)

David Heath: ...of people were encouraged to go into organics to obtain a premium on their products, a premium that has evaporated or is beginning to evaporate. I cannot see that the answer to that problem is to change the definition of "organics", as some would argue. That is a self-defeating objective. Furthermore, I cannot believe that the answer is to import organically produced feedstuffs from the...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 16 — Carbon emissions reduction targets (28 Oct 2008) has video

David Heath: ...want to prejudge these matters, yet is not the entire Bill based on prejudging the issues and on the fact that we do not want highly polluting technologies that will prevent us from reaching our climate change targets?

Slurry (22 Jan 2008)

David Heath: .... The difficulty is that if there is a long period of wet weather, which there tends to be nowadays at certain times of the year—not the same times as we used to have them, presumably because of climate change—as soon as there is a dry day, every farmer in the area will need to spread the maximum amount of slurry to meet requirements, without having any choice in the matter....

Business of the House (28 Jun 2007) has video

David Heath: I have not finished. We had a valuable statement from the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on flooding, although since then, he has left for warmer climates. I know that there has been increased investment, but the cuts in flood defence spending have been disastrous. The result for many people has been personal catastrophe. May we have a statement from the new...

Deferred Division No. 85: Easter Adjournment (29 Mar 2007)

David Heath: ...devastating if the recompense—the table valuations—does not recognise the actual value of the stock that is culled. That needs addressing. There are also opportunities in agriculture. Climate change should provide a massive opportunity for diversification into new crops and new ways of doing business, yet I do not see any joined-up thinking between those who are involved with...

Business of the House (2 Mar 2006)

David Heath: I do not know whether the Leader of the House had the opportunity yesterday to visit the "Stop Climate Chaos" lobby across the road, but would it not be opportune to hold a debate on early-day motion 178? [That this House agrees with the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser that climate change is a threat to civilisation; welcomes the cross-party agreement in favour of major cuts in...

Business of the House (2 Feb 2006)

David Heath: ...emission controls on industry are necessary, followed by another from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on why they are not? From that, we may be able to assess some form of coherent climate change strategy. May we have a debate or a statement on the Child Support Agency? We were told eight years ago that it was in urgent need of reform, and two months ago the Prime Minister...

Christmas Adjournment (20 Dec 2005)

David Heath: ...robust contingency plans in place so that we know where the resources are to deal with emergencies of this kind. Such emergencies will recur; we know that. Disasters happen and, during a period of climate change, it is almost certain that we will have more of them. We must be ready for them and be ready to act appropriately.

Business of the House (10 Nov 2005)

David Heath: ...expressed in this elected House. Just a few moments ago, the other place commenced a debate, led by Lord May—as the Leader of the House knows, he is president of the Royal Society—on climate change. Lord May will express the opinion that this country is going to fail to meet its Kyoto targets, which is a matter of importance to us all. Can this House have a similar debate? What...