Results 1-20 of 22 for climate change speaker:Barry Sheerman

Bills Presented: Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (16 Jul 2009) has video

Barry Sheerman: My right hon. Friend and I have been involved in environmental issues and campaigns against climate change for a long time, but time and again our efforts have been dogged by the lack of planning permission for ambitious and innovative schemes. Are we going to crack planning permission and are we going to do it fast?

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Regional Spatial Strategies (7 Jul 2009) has video

Barry Sheerman: When my hon. Friend is considering the strategies, will he emphasise the importance of dealing with climate change, and take it into consideration more than nimbyism?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Climate Change (10 Jul 2008) has video

Barry Sheerman: Does my right hon. Friend agree that climate change is both a challenge and an opportunity? Will she take further steps with her colleagues to get more eco-innovation in our universities and in the private sector? Some strong steps are being taken to make us a leading expert in this area, and a bit more encouragement from the Treasury would help.

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Building Schools for the Future (30 Jun 2008) has video

Barry Sheerman: ...of the programme at that time, which I think is still going on, but does he recall that the key recommendations we made were that the new buildings must be more sustainable in this age of climate change, and that new ways of teaching and learning needed far more research and implementation in these schools?

Orders of the Day: Health and Education (13 Nov 2007)

Barry Sheerman: ...Speech always gives us the opportunity to run across all the issues in it and all the ones that we wish were in it. Wearing a slightly different hat, I would have loved to go into detail about the Climate Change Bill, the planning reform Bill and the way in which the Government will, wisely we hope, provide proper management for a reduction in carbon dioxide. I would have touched on a wide...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (Food Security) (19 Jul 2007) has video

Barry Sheerman: ...Environment Minister. Does she agree that, whether we are considering food security or the G8 and World Bank meeting today and tomorrow in Paris on deforestation, there is a feeling that although climate change is very important, the response is fragmented? There is no cohesive and focused response globally, internationally, or even in this country. Will she work with her colleagues in her...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (21 Jun 2007)

Barry Sheerman: Does my right hon. Friend agree that everyone should be congratulated on the G8 agreement on climate change? I have just taken my Select Committee to China, so will he take it from me that many senior people in China are keen for partnership over climate change? They are concerned about their environment and they want to be engaged. They have huge research potential, so will he not...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emissions (8 Mar 2007)

Barry Sheerman: When my hon. Friend talks to the private sector, will he take into account the fact that it has an enormous leadership role to play in meeting climate change? Does he agree that Government regulation and that sort of thing can go some way to putting ourselves in a position to meet the challenges, but that if we could harness and encourage some of the very innovative work going on in the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Carbon Emission Targets (14 Dec 2006)

Barry Sheerman: Does my right hon. Friend agree that climate change is not just about Government targets? It is about community targets, and people's dedication to reducing their personal impact on our planet. Will he work much harder with the private sector than he has done so far, because many of us believe that it is the private sector, by developing new technologies, that will open the gates to meeting...

Orders of the Day: Communities and Local Government/Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (20 Nov 2006)

Barry Sheerman: ..., even three years ago, I could not convince him but, during those three years, there has been an amazing turnaround in consciousness about the importance of the environment. Things have changed. The Queen's Speech is welcome. I received 350 cards urging a climate change Bill and I am pleased that many of my constituents will be happy that there is to be one. However, it must be the right...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Biomass (2 Nov 2006)

Barry Sheerman: Although biomass and crops such as miscanthus are to be welcomed as contributions to our energy solutions, does my hon. Friend agree that, in view of this week's Stern report on climate change, we need a radical reappraisal of the role of agriculture in an holistic sense? Is it not about time that we had a champion in each sector leading the climate change revolution that this country needs?

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (2 Nov 2006)

Barry Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that staff in bodies for which he is responsible working to combat climate change have access to sufficient funding.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Greenhouse Gases (2 Mar 2005)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps her Department is taking to ensure that implementation of the EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Directive takes into account the national climate change target of achieving a 20 per cent. cut in emissions of carbon dioxide between 1990 and 2010.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (18 Mar 2004)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...we rebuild our nation's schools and hospitals, we should take this opportunity to do it well—to ensure that they are sustainable and of high quality. How many of us who live in this damp and rainy climate of ours have visited schools with flat roofs through which, usually about five years after they are built, water starts to pour? That makes one ask a number of questions. Who is the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (7 Nov 2002)

Mr Barry Sheerman: Does my right hon. Friend agree that the climate change levy is a very important environmental tax, and that getting it right is important? I was pleased to hear her comments on that point, but does she also agree that we need a range of innovative environmental taxes that help industry to do the right thing, and that have the right touch? Will she continue with the environmental taxation...

Orders of the Day — Disability (Grants) Bill (15 Mar 1993)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...to help. To understand the development of services provided for disabled people, one has to go back at least to Lord Beveridge, the subsequent National Assistance Act 1948 and to the dramatic change in the climate of service provision which emerged with the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, introduced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr....

Disabled Persons (Civil Rights) (26 Feb 1993)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...in the rights of disabled people to follow pretty quickly. Unfortunately, a rather different atmosphere was created, partly as a result of the new Government in 1979, and partly because a change in philosophy permeated society throughout the 1980s. I expected the Minister to be the harbinger of good news; I hoped that the spirit of the 1980s was changing and that a thrust towards the...

Clause 3: Criminal Law (23 Jun 1992)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...our methods are becoming pretty good. The trouble is that an international drug trafficker or fraudster with any sense will no longer put his ill-gotten gains into British banks. Since the dramatic changes that have taken place in the London banking climate, and the enactment of legislation, the international criminal has put his money in other parts of the world. The efficiency of our war...

Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill (20 Nov 1990)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...conference to launch the Bill—he denies that aim. He repeatedly highlights and hypes the punitive elements in a language that is liable to destroy any tentative steps towards a new sentencing climate. Let us think about the right hon. and learned Gentleman's speech this afternoon. If he is serious about changing the climate of sentencing policy, it does no one any good to talk about...

Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill: Exclusion Orders (30 Jan 1989)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ..., a citizen has no right of appeal and cannot question the order. It cannot be questioned in the courts; it is all-embracing and cannot be challenged. In these days of glasnost, we are witnessing changes in the Soviet Union which we all welcome. There are also real changes in attitude in the Soviet Union towards political prisoners and civil liberties. We hope that those changes will...