Results 1-12 of 12 for climate change speaker:Stephen Hesford

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Prices (25 Nov 2008)

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what information his Department holds for benchmarking purposes on (a) changes in energy prices in (i) other EU member states and (ii) the EU in each of the last three years and (b) the support other EU member states provide to vulnerable energy consumers.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (11 Nov 2008)

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made towards the Government's target of generating 10 per cent. of electricity supply from renewable energy sources by 2010; and what percentage of electricity supply generated from renewable sources in the latest period for which information is available.

Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day]: Economic Performance and Business (21 Oct 2008) has video

Stephen Hesford: ...with the creative industries, as it had not really thought of doing so. Liverpool has long been well known for its creative industries. The message was that, yes, this is undoubtedly a difficult climate, but if they think positively, there are ways for small and medium-sized enterprises upwards to build confidence. Rather than talking down the region, we need to talk it up. I should add,...

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (21 Apr 2008) has video

Stephen Hesford: The hon. Gentleman is talking about vision, so has he not heard of the Climate Change Bill, which is going through the House? How does that Bill square with the idea of the Labour Government not doing anything about climate change? I simply do not understand the hon. Gentleman's point, as we are the only Government in the world to introduce a Bill to deal with climate change.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (7 Feb 2008)

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking in concert with the UK's partners in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to ensure that the international road map on climate change will (a) complement economic development in the poorest nations and (b) provide protection for those countries expected to be most affected by climate change.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Climate Change: Curriculum (29 Jan 2008)

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps have been taken to make the teaching of climate change and its implications for the future part of the curriculum; and if his Department will consider combining physical education with green activities, such as planting trees.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (25 Apr 2006)

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the impact of the climate change levy on the environment; and if she will make a statement.

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Stephen Hesford: ...from taxation facilities provided by companies that offer eye tests for people who work with visual display units. That is an eminently sensible social measure. Finally, clause 172 deals with the climate change levy, about which many right hon. and hon. Members have spoken in detail. I welcome the fact that the Chancellor has included an uprating in the Bill, which makes the climate change...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Stephen Hesford: ...I am sure that she will take it into account. There is a second, equally sharp divide between the Government and the Opposition. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced the climate change levy in 2000. It is not something that he thought up in the summer as part of a leadership election campaign. It is not something that he thought up after the manifesto for the...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (23 Mar 2006)

Stephen Hesford: The hon. Gentleman is talking rather rapidly and becoming excited. He glossed over the issue of climate change, but I urge him to deal with the facts. Do the Opposition support the climate change levy in principle, and do they support the inflation rise applied to it?

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (23 Mar 2006)

Stephen Hesford: .... The environment was a key part of the Budget, a fact that has been welcomed by many of my hon. Friends, not least my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz). The climate change levy presents a challenge. It has been opposed by the Conservatives in successive years, and they have not yet signed up to it. That represents a key dividing line between us. I am...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (7 Jun 2005)

Stephen Hesford: ...she can perhaps do so if she addresses the House later. I endorse the words with which my right hon. Friend the Paymaster General opened the debate when she gave us a brief run-down of the economic climate, which is the background to the Bill. However, I want to widen those words. The Treasury under Labour has been an engine for beneficial social change and I have chosen to dip my toe in...