Results 1-15 of 15 for climate change speaker:Paul Truswell
- Olympics: Energy National Policy Statements (9 Nov 2009) has video
Paul Truswell: ...right hon. Friend give an assurance that the NPSs before us today have been fully assessed for their carbon impact, so that they transmit a clear message to the IPC about the need to meet national climate change targets and priorities?
- Pudsey (Transport) (28 Oct 2009)
Paul Truswell: ...Sir—or Madam on some occasions—can I have some more?" I regret that I do not intend to depart from that noble tradition, but I appreciate how tall an order it is in the present economic climate. West Yorkshire has a population of 2.1 million, making it the third largest metropolitan area in England outside London. Leeds and Bradford are significant centres in their own right,...
- Orders of the Day: Clause 5 — National policy statements (24 Nov 2008) has video
Paul Truswell: .... [ Laughter. ] No, no, laugh you not—the roll-call is impressive. It includes our right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster, Central (Ms Winterton), who made significant and welcome changes to the Local Transport Bill; and our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and the Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, our hon. Friend the...
- Orders of the Day: Clause 5 — National policy statements (24 Nov 2008) has video
Paul Truswell: ...and that I will give her that information in due course. The formulation that we propose strengthens the weak notion of "desirability", replacing it with need or necessity. That would elevate climate change to an unavoidable consideration, even though it would be sufficiently flexible to leave room for argument. Lord Hunt suggested in the other place that the Climate Change Bill, and...
- Orders of the Day: New Clause 8 — Parliamentary requirements (2 Jun 2008) has video
Paul Truswell: Does my hon. Friend share my concern that while it is obviously appropriate for national policy statements to address climate change, when it comes to the crunch in the individual application, the detail cannot possibly be encompassed in anything as broad as such a statement? The matter must be addressed by the IPC in the robust way suggested by my hon. Friend. The only way to ensure that...
- Transport Infrastructure (Yorkshire and Humberside) (11 Mar 2008)
Paul Truswell: ...has given them a licence to print money and they make profits even when they are not providing a decent service. We know all the environmental benefits of rail and buses. The Tyndall centre for climate change research has given us many insights into that, although I will not go into the details. The plan for the city region envisages more quality and accessibility improvements, including...
- Orders of the Day: Planning Bill (10 Dec 2007) has video
Paul Truswell: ...on the challenge posed by the planning process. There is an increasing polarisation between engaging the community, maintaining sustainable communities and tackling major challenges such as climate change on the one hand, and the promotion of enterprise, employment and wealth on the other. I believe that the Bill gets the balance substantially wrong. I appreciate, and would not seek to...
- Orders of the Day: Planning Bill (10 Dec 2007) has video
Paul Truswell: ...consultation, when the idea of national policy statements was not even a twinkle in the Secretary of State's eye. Finally, I wish to outline some of my concerns about how the Bill relates to climate change. Ministers have said that one justification for the Bill is that it will create a structure that speeds up the shift to renewable and lower-carbon energy and supports development of low...
- Transport in Pudsey (18 Oct 2007)
Paul Truswell: ...the 2005 Labour party conference, however, the Secretary of State for International Development, who was then the Secretary of State for Transport, made the announcement that gave us real hope for change. That was followed by the publication of "Putting Passengers First" and of the draft Local Transport Bill. Deregulation has been a disaster for many communities the length and breadth of...
- Business of the House: Future of Buses (8 Feb 2007)
Paul Truswell: ...can pick and choose what services they provide and where they provide them, and they can continue to make profits even when they are providing a poor service—services that are chopped, changed, missing or late. Passengers simply feel powerless in the face of that, and many people are denied a reliable and affordable service to work, school, college, the shops, health centres and...
- [Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Kate Barker Reviews (12 Dec 2006)
Paul Truswell: ...Treasury Ministers—let me put it that way. No doubt she can share the concerns that we express today with the Economic Secretary to the Treasury over the breakfast table or wherever they exchange their most intimate political secrets. The debate on land use planning has become something of a kaleidoscope, in my experience. Just when we think that we can see the whole picture, someone...
- Local Transport Funding (21 Jun 2006)
Paul Truswell: ...of more than 90 million road vehicle kilometres. That equates to a net saving of 3,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide. On the question of carbon emissions, we know from research by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research that per passenger mile, rail travel produces only 40 per cent. as much CO2 as petrol-fuelled cars and only 50 per cent. as much as cars fuelled by diesel. Coaches and...
- Transport (Pudsey) (15 Nov 2005)
Paul Truswell: ...scepticism in Leeds about how far buses can deliver the solution that we seek. Bus services have a major role to play, which could be even greater, not just through extra investment, but through changes to the environment in which they are planned and delivered. However, buses are not a one-club solution; rail has a major role to play. Since deregulation in 1986, bus services have faced a...
- Transport (Pudsey) (1 Apr 2004)
Mr Paul Truswell: ...to me about the loss of a link between her part of Yeadon and Otley, which is the location of Wharfedale General hospital, noting: "It would seem that whoever it is that decides on these 'silly' changes never travels by bus, has never understood the geography of the area of Lower Yeadon and perhaps doesn't even know there is a Hospital at Otley (the wonderful Wharfedale Hospital) that...
- Aviation (18 Nov 2003)
Mr Paul Truswell: .... They should be underpinned by an independent environmental impact assessment, which would include the prevention and minimisation of air and noise pollution. It should deal also with climate change and other associated issues such as operating hours. As my hon. Friend said, it is crucial that those issues are addressed in the context of effective national and EU standards. The key in an...