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Oral Answers to Questions — Health: European Council (23 Jun 2009)

Martin Linton: In looking forward to Sweden's presidency, with its emphasis on climate change and the economy, will the Prime Minister tell the House how much easier it will be to bring Europe out of what we all recognise as a Europe-wide recession by engaging with mainstream European leaders such as Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy rather than by throwing away our influence by joining up with the...

Business of the House (4 Jun 2009) has video

Martin Linton: Can we have a debate about the rise of the far right in Europe, and of those on the newly emerging fruitcake right who seem to believe that climate change is a myth, and homosexuality an illness? I am sure that my right hon. and learned Friend would have no truck with those parties, but the official Opposition seem determined to become a new ingredient in the fruitcake.

Energy and Climate Change: Global Population (4 Jun 2009) has video

Martin Linton: What recent discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the effects of climate change on the global population; and if he will make a statement.

Energy and Climate Change: Global Population (4 Jun 2009) has video

Martin Linton: ...the Secretary of State and his partner on this new addition to world population. Has my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary read Kofi Annan's report for the Global Humanitarian Forum, showing that climate change is now responsible for 300,000 deaths a year—98 per cent. of them in developing countries? Has she also seen the forecast that if emissions are not brought under control, climate...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 1 — Insulation standards (9 May 2008) has video

Martin Linton: Does my hon. Friend agree that an important element in the progress that we make towards insulation standards, and therefore towards dealing with climate change from buildings, is not just the regulations that local authorities can insist on, but the publicity that they can give them? A concomitant of better regulations is publicity that will reach the people—owner-occupiers, in...

[Mrs. Joan Humble in the Chair] — Sustainable Transport (8 May 2007)

Martin Linton: ...per cent. In the UK, however, it is 2 per cent., and we would need a tenfold or fifteenfold increase to reach the levels considered normal on the continent. I am tempted to say that we need a step change, but I fear that that would be a very pedestrian analogy, so let me say that we need a gear change to reach the necessary levels. Let me assure my hon. Friend the Minister that this is not...