Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:Nicholas Soames

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Conservation (20 Mar 2009)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has issued advice to (a) Government Departments, (b) businesses and (c) consumers on how to increase their energy efficiency.

Point of Order: Defence in the UK (26 Apr 2007)

Nicholas Soames: ..., peace enforcement, peace support and humanitarian relief growing any less, and I should be grateful if the Minister would confirm that when he winds up. In the longer term the growing threat from climate change and sudden catastrophic environmental disaster must be considered, as well as the stability of Governments and states in parts of the world where we have considerable interests,...

Orders of the Day: Infrastructure Audit (Housing Development) Bill (14 Jul 2006)

Nicholas Soames: ...of issues, which are all connected to one another, and constitute the most formidable challenge for Government policy and for the lives of our constituents throughout the country. They include climate change, pollution, biodiversity, the countryside and water. They also involve all the other things that go to make a civilised life: how we deal with waste; how we enable our people to travel...

Water Shortages (West Sussex) (16 Mar 2006)

Nicholas Soames: The hon. Lady is right to say that this is not a political matter. She is also right to say that there is a cyclical element in climate changes of this sort. Nevertheless, the cyclical element has occurred at a time when the Government have imposed massive house building targets on West Sussex. In mid-Sussex alone, an infrastructure deficit of over £1 billion has been necessary to cope...

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Defence (11 Dec 2000)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: .... What is proposed is, as my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe said, dangerous, for it has created the one thing that is most fatal in all military matters—a climate of uncertainty. As we warned, that could well damage NATO and the Atlantic alliance. All military operations, at whatever level, depend on absolute clarity of the chain of command and on...

Prayers: Mr. Michael Paynter (16 Oct 1996)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...reports on their deliberations to my Department's chief scientific adviser. In the past 80 years, the nature of the tests and the ways in which they are conducted have developed in response to changing principles and practices, as my hon. Friend will well understand. There has also been a considerable advance in the understanding of the hazards to health of many of the chemicals to which...

Portsmouth (Fleet Maintenance) (22 Nov 1995)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...ship building and ship repair with a large range of ancillary activities. As my hon. Friend knows, the dockyard, and the city, saw the most distinguished service through both world wars, but the changing nature of the Royal Navy required progressive changes in its engineering support and maintenance facilities. In response to those changing imperatives, Portsmouth dockyard ceased to build...

Royal Navy (16 Feb 1995)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...of naval command, control, communications and intelligence facilities will generate savings of £22 million over the next 10 years. Again, they are substantial savings which, in the present climate, we could not possibly not take. We had to take them. No convincing rationale has been advanced that would justify forgoing them. I will be in touch with the hon. Lady in more detail on the...

Prayers: Exports (14 Jan 1994)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...six consecutive quarters. That is very good news. Export volumes, excluding oil and erratics, were 4 per cent. higher in the third quarter than they were a year earlier, with imports more or less unchanged. My hon. Friend the Member for Newark rightly paid tribute, as I should like to do, to all the companies and people involved. Exporting is a difficult game, which involves people being...

Prayers: Exports (14 Jan 1994)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...enterprise agencies, the DTI and others. With Government support, these new partnerships will create hard-headed, practical, effective business support tailored to local business needs. That is an important and fundamental change in the approach to business support. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Newark will feel that that has covered the point that he raised and that the...

Orders of the Day — Maastricht (18 Dec 1991)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...more inward investment over the next few years. The reason for that is not only that we shall have taken an advantageous position at Maastricht, but that Britain has an excellent entrepreneurial climate, in which people are permitted to get on with their business and take advantage of Britain's proximity to, and partnership and arrangements with, Europe. On defence and foreign affairs, my...

Opposition Day: Business (Government Policies) (13 Jun 1991)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...for Corporate Affairs will say a few words about that. It is impossible to deny the real achievements and success of the Government's policies, which have led to an extraordinary and fundamental change in the structure of the British economy over the past 10 years, much of it for the better. None of us seeks to deny that at present we are going through a very rough patch. The reasons why...

Public Expenditure (20 Feb 1986)

Hon. Nicholas Soames: ...that there should be a Ministry for Research and Technology, with a Minister of Cabinet rank in charge of it. All of this spells a problem for Her Majesty's Government. It is up to them to set the climate for scientific research in this country, as it is set in all the other countries throughout the world with which we compete. Research is far more valued and far better viewed in those...