Results 1-15 of 15 for climate change speaker:James Paice

Bill Presented: Food, Farming and the Environment (18 Jun 2009) has video

James Paice: ...For all the reasons that the Secretary of State and my right hon. Friend the Member for Fylde mentioned, food security is hugely important. No country can say, "It's up to everybody else." Just as with climate change, we cannot say, "We'll do our own thing and leave the matter to somebody else." Every single country on this planet has a responsibility to improve its food...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (8 May 2009)

James Paice: ...for the compost operator only because of effective subsidy, either through landfill tax or whatever is coming back into the system. If we want renewable power to be not only an important part of our climate change policy but accepted by the community as important, the sooner we can move it away from a form of subsidy, the better, although I am not suggesting that it may be impossible to...

Opposition Day — 16th Allotted Day: Food Security (30 Jun 2008) has video

James Paice: ...Interests? A few weeks ago in the Chamber, I challenged the Secretary of State on the subject of food security. In his answer, he asked for a discussion on the right things to do in response to the changing circumstances. I hope that he will use this debate to make a contribution to those discussions. Three years ago, the most significant reform of the common agricultural policy since its...

Opposition Day — [3rd allotted day]: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (4 Dec 2007) has video

James Paice: ...it. Should we congratulate it on the ever increasing number of regulations that it produces? In the past six months, it has consulted on 37 new regulations. On 25 October, the Secretary of State said in the House, on climate change, that he was entering a "genuine consultation", which prompts the question: how many of the other 37 were not genuine? In the countryside, as others have said,...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (3 Dec 2007)

James Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Oldham West and Royton of 12 November 2007, Official Report, column 12W, on climate change, if he will clarify the information given in the tables; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Livestock Industry: Research (25 Jul 2007)

James Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will list the research projects which have been funded by his Department into the impact of livestock husbandry on climate change.

Estimates, 2007-08: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (9 Jul 2007)

James Paice: ..., it demonstrates how serious the situation is. The hon. Member for South Derbyshire, using his professional knowledge, explained to the House where many things went wrong in the management of the change, and the management of the delivery of the single payment system. The problems with the SPS started with the mid-term review. I want to make it clear that the Opposition supported the...

Flood Prevention (River Severn) (7 Dec 2005)

James Paice: ...approach. If he took a longer time scale, he would find that that trend is towards an increasing number of incidents. The Office of Science and Technology estimated that without action to tackle climate change, the cost of flooding could rise twenty-fold during the present century. That partly answers the point raised by the hon. Member for Northavon (Steve Webb). It is not climate change...

Rural Strategy (21 Jul 2004)

Mr James Paice: The Secretary of State referred to the valuable role of woodlands in tackling climate change, but not to their valuable role in the landscape, the forestry industry and local economies. How does she square her comments with the fact that private planting of woodland is at an all-time low and the losses being incurred by Forest Enterprise are at an all-time high, at the expense of the...

Biofuels — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (11 Mar 2004)

Mr James Paice: ...angle, by pointing to a fundamental inconsistency in the way in which the Government have dealt with the correct obligations that they undertook at Kyoto. My main thesis is my concern about climate change and the need for this country to do all that it can to help to minimise its impact, so I want to consider biofuels as part of the whole energy scenario, rather than concentrate on the...

Biofuels — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (11 Mar 2004)

Mr James Paice: ...of an expansion of biofuels. Much has been said about that, and some environmental bodies have questioned whether that would be in the interests of our national environment. My principal concern is climate change, but I shall not debate issues involving the common agricultural policy. However, I believe that the reforms that are in train are, in principle, going in the right direction. If...

World Poverty (19 Jun 2002)

Mr James Paice: ..., I am not quite sure of the point of the Secretary of State's intervention. I do not dissent from her argument, as I said that there are not many countries with natural disadvantages such as climate and soil that would prevent them from becoming largely self-sufficient. However, I shall come on to the many other reasons that may stop them. It is misguided to think that there may be simple...

Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill: New Clause 1 — Annual report on animal diseases (13 Dec 2001)

Mr James Paice: ..., there is a tremendous amount of conjunction between those two issues. Of course, some diseases affect humans and other animals. I make the aside, but it is an important one, that if we are facing climate change and a gradual warming of this part of the world—most people now accept that that is happening—we shall be increasingly at risk of diseases that have not yet reached...

Non-Food Crops (11 Jan 2001)

Mr James Paice: ...or ethanol. A small amount may be imported, perhaps from France, but the cost in the first year will be infinitesimal. The Government have already imposed huge costs on industry through the climate change levy, which we shall repeal and replace with a system of tradeable permits. There will be sufficient money in the system, either through savings to industry from the abolition of that...

Agriculture (28 Oct 1999)

Mr James Paice: ...about joined-up government. It must amuse outsiders to hear that: has nobody told the Environment Agency or the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions? What about the pesticide tax, the climate change levy and the integrated pollution prevention and control charges? They are extra costs levied on agriculture when it cannot afford it. My hon. Friend the Member for...