Results 1-19 of 19 for climate change speaker:John Redwood

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change: Conferences (5 May 2009)

John Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many UK Ministers and officials attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan on 13 December 2008; and what method of transportation each used.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Parliamentary Questions: Government Responses (5 May 2009)

John Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he plans to answer question 246697, tabled by the right hon. Member for Wokingham on 12 January 2009, on attendance at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan.

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

John Redwood: ...Either you go, or we all go." That is the tough choice that such people are facing; that is the reality. They are the people who are facing this huge rash of extra bureaucracy, extra regulation and changed tax rules that makes their lives even more difficult at a time when they need to concentrate on sorting out their business, when they need a break from their banks and when they need a...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Gifts (26 Feb 2009)

John Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many members of staff in his Department have received gifts valued at £100 or higher in the course of their duties since his Department's creation; what these gifts were; and from whom they were received.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Air Travel (12 Jan 2009)

John Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many journeys (a) he and his predecessors and (b) his officials have made by aeroplane in the course of their duties since his Department's inception.

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (17 Mar 2008)

John Redwood: ...which is a bit like "Groundhog Day". We had a themed debate rather like it as part of the European scrutiny process, and we will doubtless have a similar debate on Second Reading of the forthcoming Climate Change Bill. We have seen the three Front-Bench spokesmen all tiptoeing towards the proposition that people should have to pay more for their energy but understanding, as politicians,...

Orders of the Day: Clause 1 — Extended meaning of "the Treaties" and "the Community Treaties" (15 Jan 2008)

John Redwood: ...those extra points. I should like to make some additional ones, to finalise my critique of the Chief Secretary's position. The Chief Secretary implied that eastern European countries would be short-changed. That is not true. He also assumed that all the EU spending in those countries will be worth while, but as we know, much of it has been shown to be inefficient, wasteful or even...

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (23 Apr 2007)

John Redwood: ...Government and that we have had growth continuously during the Labour period. My party is delighted that we have had, on average, worldwide, low interest rates over the last decade. That climate has been extremely helpful. My party is glad that China and India have emerged as economic titans. They are so competitive that they are now helping growth in the world, because as well as...

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (23 Apr 2007)

John Redwood: ... the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris). It would be wrong to re-enact our debate last week on that important subject. I agree with much of what the hon. Gentleman said about climate change but, in the least convincing part of his speech, he said that there were bad people around and that they had damaged pensions. However, the one "bad person" whom he did not mention...

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (23 Apr 2007)

John Redwood: ...those businesses that remain in Britain in process industries with big energy bills and encourage new investment and new companies to come here. Perhaps the Government's wish is to hit their climate change targets by de-industrialising Britain. One way we could hit the Kyoto-plus targets for climate change is to export all the heavy energy using industries. However, that would not help the...

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (23 Apr 2007)

John Redwood: .... New businesses here would then meet higher standards of energy conservation and fuel efficiency. Our amendment says that we do not believe that the Government are getting very far in tackling climate change in the Finance Bill—and I agree with my right hon. Friends about that. I noticed that, under the section headed "Environment", the Government put through a number of increases...

Business of the House (8 Jun 2006)

John Redwood: May we have an early debate on management of the likely consequences of climate change, which would allow us to look into the use of desalination plants, such as the one proposed for Beckton, for more water resources and better coastal protection? Otherwise, the welcome for the Olympic games in Britain will be, "Don't shower while you're here. These are the dirty games. There's no water to...

Opposition Day: Industry and Employment (29 Apr 1999)

Mr John Redwood: I beg to move, That this House regrets the way the Government is making it too dear to make things in Britain; condemns the tax increases, increases in regulation and the poor climate for industry brought about by present policies; highlights the factory closures and 250,000 forecast job losses feared by the trade unions; condemns the New Deal for young people, which has failed to reduce...

Orders of the Day — Employment Relations Bill: Small Employers' Exemption (30 Mar 1999)

Mr John Redwood: My hon. Friend is ahead of me because I was going to refer to the plight of engineering firms. He is right to say that the Engineering Employers Federation is worried by the changes. It stated in January: The proposed changes to the law on industrial action will inevitably change the industrial relations climate and may make industrial action more common. It said elsewhere that it was against...

Orders of the Day — Trade, Industry, Education and Employment (25 Nov 1998)

Mr John Redwood: ...will take us back to the bad old days, back to the bad old ways. I pay tribute to both Conservative Prime Ministers in the previous Government, one of whom is in the Chamber, for their success in changing the industrial relations climate and industrial relations law.[Interruption.] Yes, I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major) on his recent honour,...

Manufacturing and Industrial Relations (13 Jul 1998)

Mr John Redwood: ...for the deterioration in the weather or for the sporting disasters—although doubtless they would have claimed credit if things had turned out differently—but I do blame them for changing the business climate for the worse. I do hold them responsible for playing the economy so badly that manufacturing is already in recession. I do hold them responsible for disrupting our...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Industrial Winners (5 Jun 1991)

Mr John Redwood: The hon. Gentleman has not been listening to the argument. The Government are not trying to pick winners; that is industry's job. The Government are creating a climate and framework in which industry can flourish. Many thousands of new jobs have been created in the 1980s. Naturally, there has been industrial change because technologies, products and customer requirements change, but it is the...

EC Merger Control (24 Jul 1990)

Mr John Redwood: ...are beginning to support the British position. Any help that hon. Members can give by arguing the case, both in this country and with our partners in Europe, will be very helpful. We are trying to change the climate of opinion in Europe—to direct it towards the nature of the takeover market, and the way in which companies can grow and increase their business.

Prayers: Export Trade (22 Jun 1990)

Mr John Redwood: ...our business men to work with us to explain to the Governments of those newly democratic countries what steps they should take to facilitate trade with the West, and to create a more attractive climate for investment by western companies and countries. We have been pleased with the responses of British industry, and of the countries that we visited, which were courteous hosts and keen to...