Results 1-20 of 37 for climate change speaker:Oliver Letwin

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Insulation: Housing (18 Dec 2008)

Oliver Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will amend the Government's insulation scheme for disabled householders to cover households with disabled children.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Insulation: Housing (26 Nov 2008)

Oliver Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will amend the Government's insulation scheme for disabled householders to cover households with disabled children.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (11 Nov 2008)

Oliver Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much Eaga made from charging installers of energy saving equipment which was purchased using Warm Front vouchers in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (11 Nov 2008)

Oliver Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether Eaga is permitted to sell Carbon Emissions Reduction Target credits to energy companies in cases where those credits arise from Warm Front grant-aided energy saving installations.

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Global Poverty (24 Jul 2007)

Oliver Letwin: ...it for debate. If Liberal Democrat colleagues read the relevant sections of the report, they will find them penetrated throughout by a recognition of the critical significance of adaptation to climate change in low-income countries, and the necessity to pass the aid programme through what it calls the "filter" of its effects on climate change.

Climate Change (22 Nov 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...endorses the principle of a cross-party consensus on carbon reduction. The motion was tabled by my hon. Friends and myself, as well as by Liberal Democrat Members. When we last held a debate on climate change in the House, Government Members reasonably requested us to put before the House a more emollient motion if we sought consensus on the way forward on climate change and carbon...

Climate Change (22 Nov 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...who attended that debate and inform hon. Members who did not that we do not imagine for a moment that consensus would consist of point-by-point agreement on every possible policy relating to climate change, which is manifestly impossible. Nor do we imagine that it will go beyond, at least at first, the establishment of common ground on principles on which the Minister for Climate Change...

Climate Change (22 Nov 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...—looking around me, I see many who have concentrated on these matters for many years—will recognise that around those three sets of issues revolves much of the answer to how we approach climate change. It is in relation to the three issues that the recent statements by the Prime Minister and other Ministers cause the inquiring mind to ask where exactly the Government are...

Climate Change (22 Nov 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...question: do they also agree that we must recognise that neither the UK alone nor even the EU can make a significant difference to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and hence to prospects for climate change? I am fairly certain that the Government accept that proposition because it is, after all, a matter of fact. Returning to the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for...

Climate Change (22 Nov 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...party, but Conservatives—this will always be true of all parties and all politicians—who respond to a considerable degree to local circumstance and to concerns other than those about climate change. We must all understand that each and every one of the technologies that the hon. Member for Sherwood and I believe need to be brought forward have constraints, some of which are...

Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill — Order for Second Reading read. (11 Nov 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...Democrats and, it appears, the Government, support the general thrust of his Bill? Does he also agree that this should be the harbinger of things to come—a tripartite effort to advance the climate change agenda, of which his Bill could be the signal beginning?

Tackling Climate Change (12 Oct 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...hon. Lady asks how I can possibly have any interests. I am not sure that I do have any interests, as a matter of fact, but I always try to follow the path of greatest assurance. The problem of climate change is manifestly global. I do not think that anyone on either side of the House is in any doubt that the problem requires global solutions. It is also clear that the Prime Minister has...

Tackling Climate Change (12 Oct 2005)

Oliver Letwin: No, and I shall explain why. The climate change levy is an extraordinarily inept tool. It has one very good aspect—the climate change agreements that have been reached with big industry—but it has one very bad effect, which the hon. Gentleman and his erstwhile, and perhaps future, master in the Treasury intended it to have. It raises a large amount of money for the Treasury from a...

Tackling Climate Change (12 Oct 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...tendency in a democracy for Governments to take short-term decisions, which may have bad long-term consequences, on interest rates for electoral reasons, so it is clear that in the domain of climate change and environmental policy, a distinct tendency exists in our or any other democracy for Governments to take a short-term position that leads to long-term deficiencies. Just as the MPC...

Tackling Climate Change (12 Oct 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...position whereby we can make concrete proposals. We have been developing the computer programmes and in-house expertise that is required to enable us to participate constructively. By the time the climate change programme review is announced, we will have had many of the discussions and be able to enter into it. Secondly, even when we are in a position to make concrete proposals, rather...

Tackling Climate Change (12 Oct 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ..., we must not make the mistake of asserting causal connections that are either tenuous or non-existent. We must not suggest that every appalling event that occurs is the direct consequence of climate change, when many of them are not. That is a difficult balance to strike. We must bring it home to people that we are talking about the distinct possibility—indeed, the...

Climate Change (G8 Summit) (29 Jun 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...the two main speakers, and I do not propose to make remarks about the contents of the Liberal Democrat election manifesto. That party has been seriously committed to trying to do something about climate change for as long as I can remember. That is clearly the Liberal Democrat position, and it is also the Government's as the Minister has been committed to the same goal, also for as long as...

Climate Change (G8 Summit) (29 Jun 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...the economics look like and therefore do not recognise or realise that economic advantage. We should not delude ourselves. The number of cases in which early economic gains would be made as well as climate change gains is limited. In many other cases, there would be social and economic costs, many of which would last for a long time as well as having a short-term impact. If we were to run...

Climate Change (G8 Summit) (29 Jun 2005)

Oliver Letwin: ...hon. Gentleman asks a good question and the honest answer is that I do not yet know. I am in discussion with my hon. Friends to come up with a view about this. Friends of the Earth is promoting a climate change Bill that will advance a view that may or may not be similar. I believe that there is considerable interest in the idea on the Liberal Benches and I suspect that we may be able to...

Climate Change (G8 Summit) (29 Jun 2005)

Oliver Letwin: .... The spokesman for the Liberals said, and I understand his motivation in saying it, that the Prime Minister was right to go into the G8 saying that his two priorities were global poverty and climate change. I agree with the hon. Gentleman that, as an objective assessment of the problems facing the world, the Prime Minister was right. Given that we are reasonably prosperous and reasonably...