Results 1-20 of 54 for climate change speaker:Michael Jack

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

Michael Jack: ...some of the issues that we have been discussing today. One of the most interesting aspects of this work was the Secretary of State's appearance before the Select Committee last November to talk about his Department's policies. Given that climate change had been removed from his Department's principal areas of activity, I asked him what his main priority had become. He hesitated briefly...

Business of the House: Standing Orders Etc. (Energy and Climate Change) (28 Oct 2008)

Michael Jack: ...North (Mr. Chaytor) made excellent and perceptive comments, and touched on some of the central issues of the debate. I am delighted that the Secretary of State for the new Department of Energy and Climate Change is back in his place because the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee recommended on several occasions that a Cabinet Minister should have more focus on a portfolio that...

Opposition Day — 16th Allotted Day: Food Security (30 Jun 2008) has video

Michael Jack: ...on the availability of food are surrounded by natural forces over which we—mankind on this planet—have very little influence. Yes, we can do something to address the vagaries of climate change, but the limits are there for all to see. I had the privilege and pleasure of going to the world food summit in Rome on behalf of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. I sat...

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

Michael Jack: ...reduction. Effectively, the Bill puts the rigour of law behind the setting of targets. Targets are what they are—they are where we would like ideally to be. Through the establishment of the Climate Change Committee, the Bill attempts to provide advice to the Government about how to achieve those targets. The way in which the committee provides its advice will, in my view, be crucial...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (1 May 2008) has video

Michael Jack: The Secretary of State will be aware of the importance of carbon capture and storage as one of the tools to deal with climate change. However, he will also be aware that Mr. Michael Jacobs, one of the Prime Minister's advisers on the subject, recently advised a conference in London that Government support for a pilot project would be restricted to some tens of millions of pounds, against...

Orders of the Day: Energy Bill (22 Jan 2008) has video

Michael Jack: ...that it should be described as a Bill to secure low-carbon sources of power and heat bolstered by an efficient energy efficiency policy. That illustrates one important drawback to debating energy in a climate change vacuum. It is a pity that we could not be debating one piece of legislation combining energy and climate change. The various White Papers that the Government have produced in...

Orders of the Day: Energy Bill (22 Jan 2008) has video

Michael Jack: ...metering. I had a meeting with representatives of Scottish and Southern Energy, who came to talk to me about the report by the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where, in our climate change citizens' agenda analysis, we described the benefits that could come from smart metering. They said that proper smart metering, which would provide appropriate tariff management...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Climate Change Negotiations (Bali) (18 Dec 2007)

Michael Jack: ...likes the menu, but it does not want the prices. What diplomatic effort is the United Kingdom going to make, particularly with the partners in the United States who take a more positive view about climate change issues, to whom he referred in his statement, to bring them as individual entities into the negotiation process, so that there can be true internal pressure from within the United...

Topical Debate: Climate Change (22 Nov 2007)

Michael Jack: As this debate reveals, there is no shortage of technology and ideas for dealing with climate change. Stern and the United Nations have recently counselled us, and we are aware of the scope and scale of the project, but as a number of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee reports have shown, and as my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) said in his powerful...

Topical Debate: Climate Change (22 Nov 2007)

Michael Jack: ...examined this question is the complexity and the number of Government Departments involved. I suggest to the Minister that, if the United Kingdom wants further to strengthen its leading position on climate change in international forums, the time has now come to have one Minister responsible for climate change who should have Cabinet status. I have made a list of the Departments involved...

Topical Debate: Climate Change (22 Nov 2007)

Michael Jack: ...around and do not get the whip from those who wish to see transport play a greater part in reducing our emissions. Having advocated the appointment of a single Cabinet Minister to be in charge of climate change, I wish that DEFRA would be more candid about the multiplicity of targets that we have to hit in the United Kingdom. The Select Committee strongly supported the Climate Change Bill,...

Topical Debate: Climate Change (22 Nov 2007)

Michael Jack: Does my hon. Friend agree with the conclusion of the report by the Select Committee that examined the draft Climate Change Bill, which said that the status of the Committee should be equivalent to that of the Monetary Policy Committee, whereby the Secretary of State would have to accept its advice and not merely regard it as guidance?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Flooding (England) (26 Jun 2007)

Michael Jack: ...assure the House that resources will be made available to the Environment Agency to revise its flood prediction computer model so that it can take into account what now appears to be an established change in the nature of our climate and weather and make our predictions on flooding more accurate?

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2007)

Michael Jack: ...financial well-being than a penny or two off the basic rate of tax. On the basis of the average mortgage—£123,000, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders—a quarter of a point change in the Bank of England's base rate would cost people £25 a month or £300 a year extra. That has a far more profound importance as regards their personal budgets than the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Domestic Carbon Emissions (14 Dec 2006)

Michael Jack: ...what the Minister has to say, and he knows of my initiative to make Fylde the most energy-efficient council in the country. He will also accept the complexity of the issues involved in dealing with climate change, whether from a personal or governmental standpoint. Will he consider changing the energy White Paper that is due out in March 2007 to a climate change White Paper, enabling the...

Orders of the Day: Communities and Local Government/Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (20 Nov 2006)

Michael Jack: In the light of the international picture on climate change and the national picture, which we have discussed in the debate, will the Secretary of State now give an undertaking to consider changing the energy White Paper into a climate change White Paper to encompass all aspects of this matter?

Orders of the Day: Communities and Local Government/Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (20 Nov 2006)

Michael Jack: ...at least publish a draft Bill in this Session. I am delighted that there is a Minister from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the Chamber again. Although I want to focus on climate change and the work that the Select Committee has undertaken, it is important to put on the record the fact that just under a year ago, the Treasury and DEFRA—I think, however, that...

Points of Order (30 Mar 2006)

Michael Jack: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In my business question a moment ago, I properly referred to the importance of climate change, with reference to the Prime Minister's remarks. My further observations involved making a sensible request, particularly in the light of the investigation that the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is to undertake into matters connected with the...

Business of the House (30 Mar 2006)

Michael Jack: From across the world, with remarkable clarity, the Prime Minister has re-emphasised the importance he attaches to climate change and especially to beginning work on efforts Kyoto post-2012. However, such was the importance that he attached to that that the Government's report on climate change came out under the cover of a written parliamentary answer. Will the Leader of the House consider...

Security of Supply (12 Jan 2006)

Michael Jack: ...Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said: "Britain's prosperity and wellbeing depend on access to secure and affordable energy supplies, and on mitigating the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change." I agree with that statement and therefore support diverse energy sources. Given the way in which Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have been...