Results 1-20 of 37 for climate change speaker:Peter Luff

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation) (3 Nov 2009) has video

Peter Luff: ..., with more Government than official Opposition supporters. However, it does not, as far as I am aware, represent the official position of any major party—but obviously I hope that that may change. Secondly, at this late stage in the Session the Bill has no chance of becoming law. I introduce it simply to stimulate an important debate. Thirdly, the Bill is deliberately modest in...

Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [ Lords] (1 Jun 2009) has video

Peter Luff: ...hung, with people saying, "Oh, there's a task. Who shall we give it to? I know, the RDA." Such an approach is already diverting RDAs from their core task of helping regional development. I have changed my view on RDAs. When they were set up, I had one of the worst in the country: Advantage West Midlands. Everyone acknowledged that it was appalling, but it has now got its act together and...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind Power: Planning Permission (16 Mar 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will make it his policy to require a buffer zone of two kilometres between a wind turbine and the nearest inhabited dwelling for any new planning application; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Wind Power: Planning Permission (11 Mar 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what information his Department makes available to local communities whose areas are the subject of onshore wind farm applications; what formal guidance his Department provides to local authorities considering each application; and if he will make a statement.

Supplementary Estimates 2008-09 — Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Economic Situation (9 Mar 2009) has video

Peter Luff: ...storm to hit this country for at least a generation. It is a much-shrunken Department; as these estimates remind us, it has lost responsibility for energy to the new Department of Energy and Climate Change and before that it lost responsibility for science to the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. However, it is still the business Department—the Department for...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Electricity Generation (22 Jan 2009)

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of (a) the UK's electricity generation capacity and (b) the spending required to sustain that capacity over the next 10 years.

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account, 2009-10 — Office of Gas and Electricity Markets: Energy Prices, Fuel Poverty and Ofgem (16 Dec 2008) has video

Peter Luff: ...participate can do so. It is very regrettable that we are down to less than two hours for each of today's two important debates. The Government were right to create a new Department of Energy and Climate Change given the importance of the issue of energy, but it is a policy area that members of my Committee and I will miss greatly. It is an endlessly fascinating policy area, with...

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account, 2009-10 — Office of Gas and Electricity Markets: Energy Prices, Fuel Poverty and Ofgem (16 Dec 2008) has video

Peter Luff: ...trying to work my way through it. Members of the Committee find it confusing, and the witnesses who came before us said that they thought it probably would be confusing. I know that there have been changes recently that will take time to settle down, but one wonders how our average constituent is supposed to understand the system. After saying that I was referring the direct debit issue to...

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

Peter Luff: ...and politically, and it is of great importance. However, it is right that we should have a separate Department for energy in the testing times that we face, especially in the context of climate change and worries about global warming. I have concerns about how the Government have approached the setting up of the new Committee, and the lack of discussion with the Chairmen of the existing...

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

Peter Luff: ...I put to the Leader of the House's office was that the Environmental Audit Committee, chaired so ably by my hon. Friend the Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo), should be replaced by the Energy and Climate Change Committee. I understand the concerns expressed by the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North (Joan Walley) about the manifesto commitment in respect of a cross-cutting...

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Jobs for the Girls: Two Years On (16 Oct 2008)

Peter Luff: ...today because the severe economic challenges that the country faces, about which we heard in the Chamber earlier, could be used by some as an excuse in relation to our country's commitment to climate change. That should not happen. Equally, those economic challenges might be used as an excuse to play down our commitment to equality and fairness in the workplace. That, too, would be wrong....

Business of the House: Department of Energy and Climate Change (16 Oct 2008) has video

Peter Luff: ...of the Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Committee, which has had responsibility for scrutinising energy policy, I must welcome the higher priority that is being given to energy and climate change matters, even as I regret what I imagine will be the loss of my Committee's responsibilities in this area, and also the loss of an excellent Minister of State, the hon. Member for...

Orders of the Day: Energy from Renewable Resources (3 Jun 2008) has video

Peter Luff: ...gains available to the UK in terms of renewable energy come from renewable domestic heat. They cannot be measured for target purposes, which calls the targets into question, but the big gains in climate change and energy security and supply will come from such things as solar thermal power for water heating. Thirdly, in his explanatory memorandum, on page 355 of the documents, the Minister...

West Midlands RSS (23 Apr 2008)

Peter Luff: ...—I am pleased to see him in his place—some elements of it are welcome. For example, the Worcestershire wildlife trust of which I am a proud member welcomes the clear statements on climate change, sustainable communities and community developments, but—and it is a big but—the issues of greatest concern are the level of new housing building that the Government seem...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Justice (7 Nov 2007) has video

Peter Luff: ...Yes, a broad approach; I am grateful for that suggestion. I refer to issues that cannot easily be pigeon-holed into individual days of debate or departmental responsibilities. Competitiveness, skills, climate change, security and energy supply—these are issues in respect of which many Departments have a role to play. I suppose that my overarching concern—I noticed it in this...

[Frank Cook in the Chair] — Nuclear Industry (19 Apr 2007)

Peter Luff: ...of nuclear installations. Modern nuclear reactors are designed to stringent standards, primarily to protect them from acts of God, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes. Whatever happens to climate change, the clemency of the British weather militates against the need to protect against those particular risks. However, it worth noting that the third generation reactors that would...

[Frank Cook in the Chair] — Nuclear Industry (19 Apr 2007)

Peter Luff: ...the Prime Minister's speech to the CBI in May 2006 in which he said that increasing dependence on gas imports "put the replacement of nuclear power stations, a big push on renewables and a step-change on energy efficiency, engaging both business and consumers, back on the agenda with a vengeance." That helped foster a high degree of cynicism about the energy review itself. Sir Jonathon...

[Frank Cook in the Chair] — Nuclear Industry (19 Apr 2007)

Peter Luff: ...big issues concerning where to site nuclear power stations. Most of the existing sites—where it is assumed that new power stations will go—are coastal. Rising sea levels resulting from climate change and endomorphic tilt will make some of them unviable in the coming decades. Most of those sites are owned by British Energy and the NDA. How will other developers gain access to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Energy White Paper (22 Feb 2007)

Peter Luff: ...that the uncertainty created by the further delay that he has been forced to announce today risks there being investment in new gas-fired power stations—with all the implications of that for climate change and security of supply—rather than in nuclear power stations, which I agree with him are necessary?