Results 1-20 of 45 for climate change speaker:David Heathcoat-Amory

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind Power: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (5 Nov 2009)

David Heathcoat-Amory: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent representations he has received on wind farm planning applications in areas of outstanding natural beauty; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind Power: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (29 Oct 2009)

David Heathcoat-Amory: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in how many Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty there are planning applications for (a) wind farms and (b) related electricity cables.

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Stern Report (19 Nov 2008)

David Heathcoat-Amory: ...and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley). He is a voice of reason in a debate that increasingly has become an article of faith. The evidence in the Stern review relied heavily on the intergovernmental panel on climate change. I have read the bulk of both reports and I am aware of being in the presence of something similar to a secular religion with its articles of faith and its heretics. I do not...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: EU Presidency (24 Jun 2008) has video

David Heathcoat-Amory: The Minister for Europe mentioned the problem of high energy prices, but EU policy on climate change and the directive on renewable energy and biofuels will increase energy prices further, so can we have some consistency here? Will the Government stop complaining about high energy costs while supporting measures that will increase them further?

Orders of the Day: European Affairs (18 Jun 2008) has video

David Heathcoat-Amory: ...states will segment and disaggregate the treaty of Lisbon into smaller parts in order to get it through in a series of smaller measures. They will meet first to see what can be done without treaty change; they will then see what can be done to get as much as possible through with treaty change, but without triggering another Irish referendum; then they will try to get the residue through,...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

David Heathcoat-Amory: I have read the intergovernmental panel report, and it surprises me that it makes no reference at all—not even in order to dismiss—to an alternative model of climate change developed by Henrik Svensmark and others, which attributes it to variations in cloud cover that are influenced by the sun's magnetic field. Regardless of whether that is right or wrong, it surely should have...

Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (28 Jan 2008)

David Heathcoat-Amory: Under the Government's proposals, a full day has been allocated for climate change and international development, even though the treaty makes very small new provisions on such issues. EU policy development on those two issues is proceeding perfectly adequately under existing treaty powers. Will my right hon. Friend ask the Minister, who has promised flexibility, to devote that time to the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Nov 2007)

David Heathcoat-Amory: They are often opposed by local people, then imposed by planning inspectors implementing Government targets for renewable energy. If the Prime Minister is serious about climate change, will he urgently restart Britain's nuclear programme and stop industrialising the uplands of Britain with wind farms that are ugly, inefficient and unreliable?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

David Heathcoat-Amory: ...chapter; the security and marketing of energy is to come under the EU. Now, I am an internationalist. I believe in reaching treaty agreements with states all over the world on matters such as climate change, global warming, energy, extradition and global security, but that is quite different from irrevocably handing over powers to a law-making body that will decide such matters on our...

Learning Disability Services (Cornwall): Energy Review (11 Jul 2006)

David Heathcoat-Amory: ...a major disappointment. Will he be assured that, if the forthcoming White Paper firms up this commitment, he will receive the support of those who want to do something serious about the threat of climate change, and of those who are worried about security of national supply—a consideration not adequately captured by any purely market solution? Given the urgency of the situation, what...

Climate Change (22 Nov 2005)

David Heathcoat-Amory: ..., because they provide an illusion of progress that is not followed through on the ground? We all know that with rising worldwide energy use, the only realistic way of meeting the threat of climate change is a nuclear power programme. All else is sophistry, illusion and wishful thinking. Is that not the consensus that we should be building worldwide?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (15 Sep 2004)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: Yesterday, the Prime Minister told other countries to take seriously the threat of climate change, so why does he have a domestic energy policy that makes no sense and that will desecrate large areas of our country with unreliable wind turbines, which will not solve the problem? At the same time, nuclear power, which does make a positive contribution, will be allowed to wither away without...

The Economy, Trade and Industry (25 Jun 2001)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...in the last Parliament. The DTI, under a succession of Secretaries of State, was unable or unwilling to stand up to the Treasury. That is why we had damaging and unnecessary taxes, such as the climate change levy, which is incredibly complex and utterly irrelevant to the task of combating global warming. It is why we had record fuel duties and why the whole British haulage industry was...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (25 Jun 2001)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to review the effects of the climate change levy on business.

Oral Answers to Questions — Steel Industry (3 May 2001)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...received a letter from seven manufacturing trade associations describing what they call a downward spiral in their industries, and demanding the withdrawal of what they term the damaging and unfair climate change levy and a halt to the 10 business regulations a day that the Government have imposed on them over the past four years? Will he also confirm that, according to the Government's...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Nuclear Power (22 Mar 2001)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...5 per cent. and then 10 per cent., CO2 emissions would start to increase in the medium term because of the decommissioning of nuclear power stations? How can the Government claim to have a rational climate change policy when, according to their own figures, emissions will start to rise again? Is not the truth that the Government have no coherent policy, save for a hope that that future...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Climate Change Levy (22 Mar 2001)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...job losses? The damage caused by the new energy tax has been confirmed by the chairman of Corus. Will the Minister also confirm that the tax is an extremely clumsy and inefficient way of tackling climate change, which could be dealt with much better by other means, such as emissions permit trading, and that the tax has been condemned by business groups, all of which have declared that it...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (8 Mar 2001)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: .... Mr. Digby Jones, its director general, said again in a press release yesterday that it is seriously damaging UK competitiveness. Furthermore, the Engineering Employers Federation said that the Climate Change Levy remains one of the most badly designed and ill-conceived economic instruments of recent times, a device for raising revenue rather than a serious attempt to encourage energy...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Climate Change Levy (15 Feb 2001)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: In the Secretary of State's statement on the 6,000 steel industry job losses at Corus earlier this month, he explicitly denied that the climate change levy was a factor. Is he aware that, on the very same day, the chairman of Corns said: Direct and indirect taxes on business such as … rising energy costs and the climate change levy have all eroded our competitiveness."? That is a direct...

Steel Industry (1 Feb 2001)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...undermined every manufacturing company that has to transport its products to the continent or elsewhere? Last week, we demanded that the Government withdraw the new energy tax—the so-called climate change levy—which will come into effect in April and will do further damage to manufacturing concerns such as steel making that are high users of energy. Will the Secretary of...