Results 1-20 of 21 for climate change speaker:Theresa May

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Jobcentre Plus (21 Jul 2009)

Theresa May: ...place in the Library a copy of each review conducted by Jobcentre Plus Customer Service Directors of their existing service delivery arrangements in meeting the challenge of the current economic climate and taking into account the planned welfare reform changes for the next two to three years, taking into account the latest known information on the expected increase in business and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Equality Bill (11 May 2009)

Theresa May: ...are struggling to stay afloat. I am on record as having said on many occasions that equality is not just something for the good times, but the Government have shown a complete lack of awareness of the changed conditions. Equality matters whatever the economic climate, but I am sure that Ministers would agree that we should be trying to work with business to develop equality policies that...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Pay (26 Jan 2009)

Theresa May: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many bonuses have been awarded to senior civil servants working at his Department in each year since its inception; and what was spent on such bonuses.

Business of the House (18 Dec 2008) has video

Theresa May: ...to that taken by the Federation of Small Businesses, which said that it "welcomes plans by the Conservative Party to guarantee billions of pounds worth of business lending through this tough credit climate." I am sure that the Leader of the House, not wishing inadvertently to mislead anyone, will be keen to correct the Hansard record on these points as soon as possible. The Leader of the...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Internet (26 Nov 2008)

Theresa May: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change for which Government websites his Department is responsible; how many visitors each has received since his Department's creation; and what the cost of maintaining each site was in that period.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Conditions of Employment (18 Nov 2008)

Theresa May: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what percentage of employees in his Department are (a) on a flexible working contract, (b) on a job share employment contract and (c) work from home for more than four hours a week.

Business of the House (13 Nov 2008) has video

Theresa May: I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the business. Following on from this morning's Energy and Climate Change questions, I remind the Leader of the House that the Energy Secretary gave a commitment a month ago that he would require action from the energy companies on fuel prices, or would take action himself. One month on, no action has been taken. This morning, the Energy Secretary...

Business of the House (22 May 2008) has video

Theresa May: ...in the other place almost two months ago, but as yet we have been given no dates for their Second Readings in the House. One is the important Children and Young Persons Bill. The other is the Climate Change Bill—a major piece of legislation of real significance for the future. Will the right hon. and learned Lady now tell the House when the Second Readings of those two Bills will be?...

Business of the House (20 Mar 2008) has video

Theresa May: ..., but many hon. Members still want an opportunity to discuss the issue. Can we have a topical debate on Tibet next week? This week, the National Audit Office released figures showing that Britain's climate change emissions are 12 per cent. higher than the levels cited in Government figures. We have also learned that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs—the...

Business of the House (28 Feb 2008)

Theresa May: ...of less than two and a half hours of detailed debate on amendments. That has meant that important amendments concerning such matters as asylum and immigration, borders and visas, defence, and climate change have not been discussed at all. May I repeat the call made last week by my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Cambridgeshire (Mr. Vara), the shadow Deputy Leader of the House, for...

Business of the House (26 Jul 2007) has video

Theresa May: ...of 25 councils and the failure of the Youth Justice Board. Today, a further 30 written statements are planned, including one on a breach of data security for visa applications, one on the Government's climate change target and one on the cost of ministerial cars. So much for the post-spin era. Will the right hon. and learned Lady make a statement on that abuse of written ministerial...

Draft Legislative Programme (25 Jul 2007)

Theresa May: ...deliver several Bills in their previous legislative programme? According to the Leader of the House's website, the following Government Bills for 2006-07 have not yet had their First Reading: the Climate Change Bill, the counter-terrorism Bill, the protection of cultural property during armed conflict Bill, the House of Lords Bill, the Human Tissues and Embryos Bill, the local government...

Business of the House (15 Mar 2007)

Theresa May: I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the future business and his written statement of today on the procedural change, which will definitely be for the convenience of Members of the House. It has recently been discovered that Ministers have released documents relating to council tax revaluation under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 that they had previously refused to release in...

Business of the House (8 Feb 2007)

Theresa May: Given the interchange that we just heard in questions to the Solicitor-General, may I help the Leader of the House by suggesting that he arrange a debate on collective responsibility, in which Ministers could learn to understand what being part of the same team is supposed to mean? I note that the Leader of the House has not given us a full two weeks' business. He will have noticed that there...

Business of the House (26 Oct 2006)

Theresa May: ...the Government can explain how they can claim to be interested in increasing child care when their policies will cut provision? The Prime Minister has frequently spoken about the need to address climate change. Indeed, recently he told his European Union counterparts: "We have a window of only 10-15 years to take the steps we need to avoid crossing catastrophic tipping points." On 17...

Adjournment (Easter) (30 Mar 2006)

Theresa May: ...in my constituency. Such a practice might meet the Deputy Prime Minister's density requirements and his target number for dwellings, but it does not provide the kind of housing that people need. It changes the character of areas, and puts unacceptable pressure on infrastructure such as roads, schools, GPs' surgeries and utilities such as water. My hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point...

Business of the House (2 Mar 2006)

Theresa May: ...cuts are "scientifically flawed" and "will . . . have a serious detrimental effect on the Government's ability to make policy that is based on sound scientific research." Given the significance of climate change, to which the issue relates among other things, will the Leader of the House arrange for publication of the evidence given by DEFRA to the NERC review and for a debate on the...

Christmas Adjournment (20 Dec 2005)

Theresa May: ...rightly linked the Government's failure to achieve reform of the common agricultural policy to the lack of greater progress at the World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong. As with the climate change talks in Montreal, I suggest that, far from proclaiming their success, the Government should be dissatisfied at the lack of progress made. The hon. Member for Rochdale (Paul Rowen), among...

Business Statement (15 Dec 2005)

Theresa May: ...for some time. I trust that I will have the same degree of success with the request that I shall make to the Leader of the House today. Given the importance of the outcome of the Montreal talks on climate change, which is of long-term significance to us all, and the fact that there has been only limited opportunity to question Ministers through Department for Environment, Food and Rural...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Flooding (2 Feb 2004)

Mrs Theresa May: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) when the Environment Agency will publish maps showing the climate change zone in relation to the one in 100 year floodplain; (2) when the Environment Agency will publish policies on the incorporation of climate change calculation into the determination of floodplain.