Results 1-16 of 16 for climate change speaker:Eric Pickles

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Empty Property (20 Apr 2009)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the estimated cost in empty property business rates for the vacant properties recorded on the e-PIMS database owned by (a) the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and (b) the UK Atomic Energy Authority is in 2008-09.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (6 Mar 2009)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what policy objectives the provisions of section 76 of the Climate Change Act 2008 are intended to meet.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (15 Jan 2009)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the (a) name and (b) address of each regional climate change partnership is; and whether such bodies are classified as public authorities for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (24 Nov 2008)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change who he expects to conduct the street-by-street visits in fuel-poor areas under the home energy saving scheme; and what information will be (a) collected and (b) stored.

Written Answers — Defence: Floods: Thames Estuary (20 Nov 2008)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the advice provided by the Meteorological Office to the Environment Agency on the effects of climate change in the South East in relation to flood risk management in the Thames Estuary.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste Disposal: Domestic Wastes (5 Feb 2008)

Eric Pickles: ..., Food and Rural Affairs whether members of the public will be able to make submissions to the organisation which will produce the reports to lay before Parliament under the provisions of the Climate Change Bill on the operation of the new household rubbish collection charge pilots.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste Disposal: Domestic Wastes (5 Feb 2008)

Eric Pickles: ...if he will designate an independent agency to undertake the reports to be laid before Parliament on the operation of the new household rubbish collection tax pilots under the provisions of the Climate Change Bill.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste Disposal: Domestic Wastes (5 Feb 2008)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the proposed power of the Secretary of State under the Climate Change Bill to (a) designate a specific area as a pilot for new household rubbish collection charges and (b) issue guidance on the administration of such a specific pilot, will require parliamentary approval by the procedure of affirmative resolution.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Housing: Renewable Energy (28 Jan 2008)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether the new planning policy statement on climate change will (a) allow local authorities to continue to implement the Merton Rule and (b) require that a minimum proportion of all new developments' energy needs should come from on-site renewables.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Floods (13 Dec 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether she plans to revise Regional Spatial Strategies' flood risk assessments, in light of (a) recent flooding, (b) climate change and (c) the Lessons Learned review.

Orders of the Day: Local Government and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (8 Nov 2007) has video

Eric Pickles: ...a marine Bill in 2005, and it has been one of the main objectives since 2001. We have been waiting patiently, but our patience is now exhausted. I have always thought that the marine Bill and the Climate Change Bill were really just two sides of the same coin. Of course we welcome the Climate Change Bill. Such is our enthusiasm that we have welcomed it every time the Government have...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste Disposal (19 Feb 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research his Department has undertaken on the relative contribution of (a) the recycling process and (b) landfill to climate change emissions.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste Disposal (16 Feb 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research his Department has undertaken on the relative contribution of (a) the recycling process and (b) landfill to climate change emissions.

Local Government Finance (6 Feb 2006)

Eric Pickles: The House is grateful for the Minister's explanation of the change in the grant mechanism. It will long remember that with gratitude. I suppose that it is a matter of deep sadness to him that nobody in the Local Government Association or in any of the councils thought that the change was good or supported it. I accept that the odd one or two might have supported him, but by and large two...

London Underground (24 Apr 2002)

Mr Eric Pickles: ...which private finance is agreed and assured. We know that projects such as station modernisation, tracks, tunnels and bridges have all been pushed back, and many such projects have been abandoned. Under the PPP, changes to the rolling stock were originally going to be modest, but they have been further cut back. The hon. Member for Leyton and Wanstead read out several examples. He talked...

Opposition Day: Foot and Mouth Disease (21 Mar 2001)

Mr Eric Pickles: ...having to distribute benefits, having to fill in forms and having to duplicate paperwork for different Departments. Yesterday, I was surprised by the Minister for the Environment's comments on the climate change levy. He said, "Don't worry about the climate change levy. It will not really affect farms." He added that overwhelmingly, it will be larger and non-rural businesses that will...