Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:John Horam

Orders of the Day: Greater London Authority Bill (12 Dec 2006)

John Horam: ...development in the Thames Gateway. Simultaneously, that development could deal with the sort of problems that would arise from building on a floodplain, such as flooding as a result of worsening climate change. We could protect London and the Thames area and at the same time provide proper infrastructure for decent housing. That could be a way forward, but it is not discussed in the...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: British Summertime (15 Feb 2006)

John Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the merits of introducing Double British Summertime as a means of improving the UK's record on climate change; and if she will make a statement.

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (16 Mar 2005)

Mr John Horam: ...sensible management. Such reform is essential and we believe that it should be taken further, but the Chancellor is glorying in deriding the extent to which the market and decentralisation can play a part in changing the public sector. Not only does the Chancellor apparently oppose reforms that the Prime Minister and other Government members want; he has strangled the public sector by...

Renewable Energy (22 May 2002)

Mr John Horam: ...that report and ask for a debate on it when it is published. He is right to say, as other hon. Members have said, that the prime driver for an interest in the expansion of renewable energy is climate change. A report brought out today by the United Nations and introduced by Mr. Klaus Topfer, the executive director of the United Nations environment programme, reinforces the point about...

Rural Communities and Transport (26 Jun 2001)

Mr John Horam: Indeed. I agreed with my hon. Friend when he said that he was pleased that the Gracious Speech included a reference to tackling climate change and making a reality of sustainable development. I am strongly of that view. If the Government really wish to take that approach, after making their declaration in the Gracious Speech, they could reincarnate the Select Committee on the Environmental...

Renewable Energy (5 Apr 2001)

Mr John Horam: ...per cent. of its electricity demand from renewable sources. That is an area in which we can be really ambitious. The brilliant record of previous Conservative Governments--especially in tackling climate change, reducing CO2 emissions and the dash for gas--put the Government in a wonderful position further to develop our successes, which has been rather marred by what they have done so far....

Greening Government Initiative (17 Mar 1999)

Mr John Horam: ...leadership and commitment from the Treasury. Hon. Members will know that the Chancellor got the booby prize in the green awards this year. However, since the Budget, we have seen evidence of some change in the Treasury's approach. It has been pointed out that the Budget implemented or reinforced 14 of the 18 measures mentioned in the pre-Budget report, which is a good record. Also, at long...

Greening Government Initiative (17 Mar 1999)

Mr John Horam: ...progress on sustainable development so that we may examine policies and programmes in their entirety across the whole landscape of the environment, including wildlife, green fields, pollution and climate change. That debate is essential if the Government are to enter into the spirit of what the Select Committee is proposing. Failure to provide it is one black mark against them. Even worse...

Prayers: Debate on the Address (4 Nov 1981)

Mr John Horam: ...to reduce inflation. In other words, they have carried on with the same old measures, undertaken with considerable incompetence, that they have pursued over the past few years, regardless of the changed circumstances. I believe that it is a mistake to pursue one aim to the virtual exclusion of all others in all circumstances, just as it is a mistake to rely on one weapon to prosecute that...

Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL: Rate of Value-Added Tax (16 Jul 1980)

Mr John Horam: ...and, therefore, to reduce unemployment. I shall deal first with the question of anomalies in hard cases. We discussed that issue in our debates on the Finance Bill last year, when the Government changed the general rate of VAT. In the intervening 12 months the practical difficulties of the structure of, and the exemptions from, VAT have become more apparent, especially as a result of the...

Orders of the Day — Road Improvements (Compensation) (13 Dec 1976)

Mr John Horam: ...what are known as "feeder" roads for other roads which may be new constructions. To think of any extension of the compensation provisions is, I am afraid, somewhat academic in the current financial climate. But, were times more propitious, one might think of such cases as being specially deserving of consideration. I have to say, however, that the subject would be found to be bristling...

Clause 10: Surtax Rates for 1972–73 (11 Apr 1973)

Mr John Horam: ...differentials in both pre-tax and post-tax incomes. The economic facts of life and the appeal for wage restraint which any Government, whether Conservative or Labour, have to make are producing a change in the climate of opinion about equality and tax avoidance at the surtax level. Whatever the hon. Members for South Angus and for Ciren-cester and Tewkesbury may think, the present...

Orders of the Day — Pound Sterling (29 Jun 1972)

Mr John Horam: ...extent, and so it has, but I am surprised by the degree to which it has not worked, by the way in which people say, "We can understand the unions putting forward the claims that they make, given the climate of events and the Government's policy in other spheres, and given what a wage claim adds up to when tax effects, price effects and the rest are taken into account". That is certainly an...