Results 1-20 of 90 for climate change speaker:Steve Webb

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 8 (29 Oct 2009)

Steve Webb: ....] I am not entirely reassured to see the Minister shaking his head. There is a serious point behind all of this. Who will take the lead, because we all know, as we have seen with efforts to tackle climate change, that it is difficult for an individual Department to have clout across Government. Sorting out the climate is not the job of just the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Schedule 1 (27 Oct 2009)

Steve Webb: ...identifies a gap in knowledge, it would be appropriate for it to have a limited budget to do something about it. There is a contrast between the child poverty commission and the Committee on Climate Change, which has a budget this year of £3.4 million. I think that the child poverty commission’s budget is about 5 per cent. of that figure. Within the CCC’s budget, research...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 7 (27 Oct 2009)

Steve Webb: ...complexions and different social environments, overall child poverty rates are going up because there are global forces at work. Globalisation has implications for the wage structure. There are social changes going on across Europe. There are forces at work which tend to lead to greater inequality and greater child poverty. I therefore find it hard to believe that, even if we reach that...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill: Clause 1 (27 Oct 2009)

Steve Webb: ...weak institution compared with other analogous bodies, such as the Low Pay Commission—the minimum wage recommendations of which Governments have great difficulty ignoring—and the Committee on Climate Change, which has had a huge influence already and even before it existed had a huge influence in shadow form. The child poverty commission will be 14 people meeting four times a...

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill (20 Oct 2009)

Steve Webb: I think that that last point is a powerful one, having been involved with the Climate Change Bill. The shadow commission more or less dictated the amendment of the Bill—to an 80 per cent. reduction—and made it powerful. To be momentarily cynical again, the child poverty unit’s impact assessment of the Bill says that the child poverty commission will meet four times a year and...

Bill Presented — Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill: Child Poverty Bill (20 Jul 2009) has video

Steve Webb: ...do and they always should—but why do we need that clause in this Bill? It has the feel of a get-out clause and I hope the Government will reflect on that. When the Government introduced the Climate Change Bill, they had an ambitious goal for a long-term problem and they set up the Committee on Climate Change to oversee and monitor its enforcement. There is recognition of the fact...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Accountancy (16 Jul 2009)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he expects to publish his Department's resource accounts for 2008-09.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Members: Correspondence (15 Jun 2009)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Northavon of 21 November 2008, regarding Warm Front grants, sent on behalf of Mr. Hussey.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Members: Correspondence (21 Apr 2009)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Northavon of 19 December 2008 on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson of Old Sodbury.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Members: Correspondence (3 Mar 2009)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Northavon of 20 October 2008 on behalf of Mr. Peter Kendall regarding Government grants for home insulation.

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

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much has been spent on the design and implementation of his Department's website to date; how much is forecast to be spent on the migration of relevant information on websites belonging to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; when he expects such...

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

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the cost of establishing his Department has been; and how much has been spent on (a) relocation, (b) the logo, stationery, building signs and electronic media, (c) fees paid to advisers and consultants on establishment and (d) other transition costs.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Initiative (16 Dec 2008)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will make an assessment of the work of the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Initiative and its potential to contribute to the targets for carbon dioxide emissions set by his Department; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (16 Dec 2008)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and (b) EDF on (i) the timing of the NDA's announcement of the sale of NDA land for new nuclear builds and (ii) the likely effect of this sale and its timing on the price of (A) the Government's stake in British Energy and (B) shares in...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: British Energy: EDF (26 Nov 2008)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has offered compensation to EDF in exchange for the sale of land to potential new-build competitors at existing British Energy sites; and what discussions his Department has had with other shareholders in British Energy over the sale of British Energy to EDF.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: British Energy: EDF (26 Nov 2008)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether the Office of Fair Trading has contacted his Department concerning potential monopoly issues relating to the sale of British Energy and access to sites by competitors; and what discussions he has had with EDF over referring its buyout of British Energy to the EU Competition Commission.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: EU Emissions Trading Scheme (26 Nov 2008)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on what basis his Department set the quantity of emission allowances to be auctioned in the second stage of the European Emissions Trading Scheme; for what reasons his Department has not auctioned the maximum number of allowances possible at this stage; what additional revenue he estimates he would have received from such an auction;...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Power Stations: Insurance (26 Nov 2008)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has offered a full or partial waiver of liability on insurance claims regarding British Energy's existing stations to the purchaser of the stations; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Power Stations (25 Nov 2008)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what arrangements he has made for the liabilities of existing British Energy reactor sites to be covered by EDF; whether EDF will continue to pay into the Nuclear Liabilities Fund to cover wastes and spent fuel created from ongoing operations at existing British Energy reactors; and whether EDF will be required to pay the same amount...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewables Obligation (25 Nov 2008)

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the (a) initial and (b) final value has been of a renewables obligation certificate, including late payments, in each year of operation of the Renewables Obligation; and if he will make a statement.