Results 1-20 of 87 for climate change speaker:Alan Whitehead

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Government Departments (11 Nov 2009)

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether he plans to take steps to encourage voltage optimisation on the Government estate.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Oil Fired Power Stations (9 Nov 2009)

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many tonnes of oil were burned to produce electricity in oil-fired power stations in the UK in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Oil Fired Power Stations (9 Nov 2009)

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many kilowatt hours of electricity were produced via oil-fired power stations produced in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008.

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Alan Whitehead: ...debate. I was dismayed when the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) repeated, yet again, the canard that because not all scientists agree with everything about all aspects of climate change, the debate is uncertain, undecided and open. A consensus does not mean that everyone has to agree. As we can see in this Chamber, there is a very encouraging consensus about the...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Alan Whitehead: ...world in which we will live, and I am sure that that will be displayed in her winding-up speech. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the idea of a low-carbon economy has been underlined by the Climate Change Act 2008 and the material that has been produced about the route to such an economy—indeed, I am holding in my hand a copy of "Moving to a global low carbon economy: implementing...

Climate Change (5 Nov 2009) has video

Alan Whitehead: The right hon. Gentleman has read out a very short list, but does he accept that it would take several days to read out the list of people who have the opposite opinion about the science of climate change? Does he also accept that the whole idea of science is that it consists of hypotheses and disputes? There never is an absolute consensus, but is it not probably a good idea to take the...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (3 Nov 2009)

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what exemptions there are to the application of the climate change levy in respect of the burning of recovered fuel oil in industrial manufacturing processes.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Smart Meters (9 Jul 2009)

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent progress his Department has made on the national roll-out of smart meters.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 Jun 2009) has video

Alan Whitehead: ...and many other hon. Members in your time as Speaker? In view of recent speculation, can the Prime Minister assure me that budgets relating to the support of green energy development and combating climate change will be maintained and enhanced over the next three years? Would he reflect on what the United Kingdom's ability to meet its carbon budget commitments would be if such funding were...

Green Energy (Definition and Promotion) Bill (8 May 2009)

Alan Whitehead: ...Members' Bills, rather like planning permission for microgeneration, appear to run into some difficulties in practice once they reach the statute book. That is true of not only his Bill, but the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 of my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz), which contained clauses that I regret to say arose from an...

[Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Darwin Initiative (30 Apr 2009)

Alan Whitehead: ...initiative has covered almost 650 projects in almost 150 countries, so it really is a worldwide initiative. Understanding of the importance of biodiversity is often absent, but biodiversity, like climate change, does not stop at national borders: we are all poorer for the loss of biodiversity and we are all richer by its maintenance and enhancement. The true global scope of the Darwin...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy: Combined Heat and Power (1 Apr 2009)

Alan Whitehead: ...electricity suppliers; (2) what assessment he has made of the effect on the development of new combined heat and power (CHP) plants and their contribution towards UK CHP targets of a cessation of climate change levy exemptions for electricity outputs after March 2013; (3) what assessment he has made of the effect on the operation of existing combined heat and power plants of a cessation...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Heating (30 Mar 2009)

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what plans he has to include the replacement of circulation pumps in proposals to enhance home energy efficiency.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Consumption (18 Mar 2009)

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of annual average household electricity consumption comprised by the operation of (a) a refrigerator, (b) a freezer, (c) a television, (d) a computer, (e) a central heating water pump and (f) lighting.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy: Meters (23 Feb 2009)

Alan Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress his Department has made (1) in co-ordinating arrangements to oversee the roll-out of smart meters; (2) in developing a model for the roll-out of smart meters; (3) in determining a standard specification for smart meters.