Results 1-14 of 14 for climate change speaker:Gavin Strang

Orders of the Day: New Clause 15 — Advice on emissions from international aviation and international shipping (28 Oct 2008) has video

Gavin Strang: I think that the whole House welcomes the movement by the Government in this area. I congratulate the Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Joan Ruddock), and I particularly welcome the fact that the Government are accepting the amendment tabled in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley). My...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: European Council (20 Oct 2008) has video

Gavin Strang: ...to estimate stocks outside the EU, and does my right hon. Friend believe that the EU can make a contribution to help us to achieve our objective of security of supply in energy and to meet our climate change commitments?

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

Gavin Strang: Surely no challenge facing the world today is more urgent than that of climate change. About 20 years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up. I think that the IPCC reflects the scientific position in the world today, notwithstanding some of the comments that we have heard during the debate. The excellent assessment report that it published last year concluded that...

Amendment of the Law (12 Mar 2008)

Gavin Strang: ...of the need to put in place measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Some years ago, the Government made a start on using the tax system to make our behaviour on these islands more environmentally friendly. The climate change levy was introduced in 2001 and the aggregates levy was introduced in 2002. Vehicle excise duty was restructured to reflect, for the first time, the environmental...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (27 Mar 2006)

Gavin Strang: ...'s future. The Budget has served another purpose by shedding a little light on the policies of the official Opposition. After all, although Conservative Members are eager to tell us that they have changed, they are rather shy about what they have changed into. We now know that the Conservative party would reduce spending by £17 billion in the year ahead. On top of that, my right hon....

Armed Service Pilots (25 Apr 2001)

Dr Gavin Strang: .... Let us face it: by definition, a fast jet pilot is at the peak of his productive ability. He would often have a young family, so it is important that we face the matter in the round and follow through the changes and initiatives that the Government have already taken. I congratulate them on that. We must create a climate in which we can retain the fast jet pilots for longer than we are...

Orders of the Day — HIV-AIDS (5 Jul 1999)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...ground, as a monitoring tool and in order that we could learn from best practice; and finally, to help ensure that there was a focus at national and local level on this terrible disease. Much has changed since the Act went through Parliament. The profile of the disease is ever-changing. Sex between men remains the major route of transmission in the UK, but sex between men and women was...

Prayers: Railway Regulation (25 Mar 1998)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...) emphasised. The Committee's recommendation that transport safety regulation, should be focused on a single, entirely independent authority goes wider than railways. It would be a significant change in present arrangements for transport safety regulation, and would raise some complex issues. The United Kingdom's transport safety record is relatively good, and we would need to ensure that...

Agricultural Prices (21 Mar 1995)

Dr Gavin Strang: .... It all gears into the same direction: spending the money. Of course, it does not mean that all traders would manipulate it. Not all transactions are fraud, but the problem is you create a kind of climate where, let us say, a little bit of a fiddle is more or less accepted. One should not be too critical of the traders because it could hamper trade; it could make it difficult to get rid...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Earth Summit (17 Jun 1992)

Dr Gavin Strang: Is the Secretary of State aware that many scientists take the view that the United Nations convention on climate change and the United Kingdom and European Community commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 are insufficient to prevent serious global warming? Does the Secretary of State agree with those scientists? If so, will the Government use their...

Science and Engineering Research Council (14 Mar 1991)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...is also the professor of astronomy at Edinburgh and the Astronomer Royal. There is no doubt that that symbiosis between the university department and the SERC staff has created a successful climate for scientific endeavour, which helps to make the observatory such a useful facility for astronomers throughout the country. I do not want to take too much of the time of the House detailing...

Prayers: The Gulf (6 Sep 1990)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...powerful country with tremendous interests and links with various countries throughout the world—and the United States, the most powerful military country in the world. It is because of the change in the relationship between those two countries that the United Nations has been able to develop as it has and has progressed so far. If the United Nations action can succeed, what is...

Orders of the Day — Hygiene in Poultry Slaughterhouses (20 Jul 1981)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...to the problem. I note that the Parliamentary Secretary is not committed to the Commission's amending directive. Indeed, I take it from his remarks that the Government are determined to achieve changes, if not to eliminate the directive—and we may be better off without it. The Commission's approach is to introduce an element of greater stringency and uniformity across the board,...

European Community (Consumer Protection) (7 Nov 1980)

Dr Gavin Strang: ...be found for having no faith in such international standards, and I do not believe that that is the case here. If we adopt the standards proposed, they might damage developing countries which, for climatic reasons, may be opposed to the different levels. I was pleased to hear the Minister's remarks on the draft directive for the harmonisation of regulations in the EEC concerning fruit...