Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:John McFall

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the law (22 Apr 2009)

John McFall: ...them in their jobs and in their homes. I have been seeking a Budget that protects the most vulnerable people in our society and that prepares the economy for the future—an economy that is changing enormously. I welcome the comments and commitments made by the Chancellor regarding climate change and green technology. The Chancellor's announcements regarding the steps that he will be...

Amendment of the Law (12 Mar 2008)

John McFall: ...they want that allowance to be taken away; I reckon he will get a raspberry in response. We should welcome that good initiative. On environmental taxation, when the Treasury Committee reported on climate change and the Stern review last month, we expressed disappointment that the Government's commitment to the 1997 statement of intent on environmental taxation had not been maintained. The...

Amendment of the Law (21 Mar 2007)

John McFall: ...the success of the Gershon efficiency programme across Government, about which we have a number of questions; and lastly the importance of environmental considerations and the economics of climate change in Treasury policy, both now and in the future. The Budget painted an encouraging picture of economic growth and the Committee has noted the signs for business investment—the...

Amendment of the Law (21 Mar 2007)

John McFall: ..., but to ensuring that it is reported in ways that ensure parliamentary and public confidence in its delivery. I come to the importance of environmental considerations and the economics of climate change in Treasury policy, now and in the future. The Chancellor is right to put environmental considerations at the forefront of the Budget. He is also right to stress the role of incentives, as...

Amendment of the Law (21 Mar 2007)

John McFall: ...role for manufacturing. I hope that he is satisfied with that answer for the moment, but I will ensure that I report back to him at some other time. I referred to the aviation industry and climate change. I also mentioned earlier that I was at a conference in Cape Town last week with representatives from European and African nations, and one of the big issues was climate change. We cannot...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Rising Sea Levels (24 Jan 2007)

John McFall: The Treasury Committee is looking at climate change following Sir Nicholas Stern's report for the Treasury. One of his conclusions was that it is the poorer countries—particularly in Africa—that will suffer if we do little or nothing about this. What strategy does DIFD have for a climate change element in its negotiations, particularly with African countries?

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

John McFall: ...constrained unnecessarily by spending levels or data classification from, say, 12 years earlier, at the start of a cycle. In particular, revisions to data might be held to require sudden and undesirable changes to tax or spending in the final years of the cycle, for the sole purpose of meeting the mechanical calculation implicit in the golden rule. We have said previously in reports, and...

The Economy and Welfare Reform (25 May 2005)

John McFall: ...constant challenges and the risks of instability in the world economy over the past five years—those include the Asian crisis when Korea went bankrupt, the Russian crisis, the IT crisis, the stock exchange crisis, the US downturn, which spread across Europe and Japan, with world trade stalling for the first time in decades, and the volatility of oil prices—we have outpaced our...

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Road Fuel Taxation (29 Jun 2004)

Mr John McFall: The Government have cut the fuel tax escalator that the previous Government imposed. Does the Secretary of State accept that environmental issues such as climate change are important and that a sensitive balance must be reached? Those who fought against protestors in the late 1980s are now inciting people needlessly to riot, which is a sorry sight.

Schedule 10: Cornton Vale Prison (Suicides) (17 Jun 1996)

Mr John McFall: .... We cannot prevent every suicide in prison, but we must have a proper regime. The deficiencies need to be tackled. I wish the Minister to elaborate on the Gunn and the Power recommendations. Cultural change is important. Any profession may become preoccupied with a feeling of being beleaguered, misused and misunderstood. I do not want that to happen to the prison service, because it...

Orders of the Day — Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Bill [Lords] (19 Oct 1992)

Mr John McFall: ...said that it was extremely disappointed that Lord Kincraig's proposals had failed to gain a place in the Government's legislative programme for 1991–92 and that delays in implementing the changes to the system in Scotland had led in their opinion to uncertainties and loss of faith among prisoners and staff. Meanwhile, Scotland is becoming more and more out of line with what is...

Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates (19 Jun 1990)

Mr John McFall: ..., and all Departments are included. Like other hon. Members, I warn the Government that in paragraph 2.6 of its latest report the Select Committee on Defence said: It is essential that any changes in defence expenditure reflect a planned and orderly process of matching commitments and resources. Service personnel and everyone else are owed that. Ministers should go about their review on...

Orders of the Day — Defence Estimates (19 Jun 1990)

Mr John McFall: ...concerning increased expenditure in the Soviet Union. Five months later, the CIA admitted that that information was wrong and that Soviet military expenditure was decreasing. We are talking about a climate for change; perhaps if the hon. Gentleman listens he will learn something. In the Soviet Union in the 1960s the growth rate was 6 per cent.; in the 1970s it was 4 per cent.; in the...