Results 1-7 of 7 for climate change speaker:Tom Levitt

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Sight Impaired (3 Mar 2009)

Tom Levitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what guidelines his Department follows in respect of making printed materials and forms accessible to people suffering red/green colour blindness.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Energy Efficiency (31 Jan 2008) has video

Tom Levitt: ...heating boilers only when they have failed; they are not available to replace old and inefficient boilers. Surely it is in the best interests of poorer people, the economy as a whole and tackling climate change that inefficient boilers in all the homes of those on the lowest incomes should be available for grant aid.

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

Tom Levitt: ...fire, peat cutting and dehydration are the three major threats to peat in this country. Will he therefore ensure that we have a proper strategy to give peat a high priority in the battle against climate change in High Peak, the rest of this country and around the world?

Orders of the Day: Local Government and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (8 Nov 2007) has video

Tom Levitt: ...Private Secretary for four years, and with due diligence, I notice that he has been present in the Chamber even longer than me today, missing only 10 minutes of debate. He will be aware that climate change is one of the biggest issues, if not the biggest issue, confronting us. I want to raise two things with him. First, climate change has a political architecture: individuals, communities,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: G8 Summit (11 Jun 2007)

Tom Levitt: I welcome the G8's acknowledgement that the world's poorest countries are also the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, whether that is desertification, drought or rising sea levels in places such as Bangladesh. I also welcome the commitment to working through the United Nations to ensure that climate change policy is implemented. Is my right hon. Friend confident that the United...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (29 Nov 2006)

Tom Levitt: My right hon. Friend's commitment to tackling the problems of global warming and climate change is well known. Does he agree that local authorities have a vital role in taking this matter forward, and will he ensure that local authorities have the advice, the resources and the motivation to tackle climate change at a local level?

Public Bill Committee: Commons Bill [Lords]: Clause15 (25 Apr 2006)

Tom Levitt: .... Having said that, I should like to take the opportunity to question the Minister about a situation that has arisen in my constituency. As I mentioned in an intervention on the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment on Second Reading, there have been two instances in which I believe that the town green applications have been misguided and unhelpful for the common good of the...