Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:John Whittingdale

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Radioactive Waste: Exports (16 Jul 2009)

John Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will bring forward legislative proposals to permit the export of graphite nuclear waste to the United States; and if he will make statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Nuclear Waste Export (4 Jun 2009)

John Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he next plans to review the effectiveness of the law on the export of nuclear waste; and if he will make a statement.

Sea Defences (Essex) (12 Oct 2004)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...the great floods, which resulted in more than 100 deaths in Essex. All of us are very conscious, therefore, of the ever-present threat from the sea. That threat is increasing for several reasons. Climate change is leading to rising sea levels, the rate of which some estimate at around 30 cm a century. On top of that, the land is sinking at about the same rate, owing to the tilt that...

Energy: Towards 2050 (20 Jun 2002)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...doubt that we must reduce our reliance on energy whose generation results in the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That must be done if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change.

Energy: Towards 2050 (20 Jun 2002)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...has now left the Chamber, because another matter that needs to be addressed is that the contribution of nuclear generation to combating global warming should be recognised by exempting it from the climate change levy—a matter that I shall return to in a moment. I should like the Minister to confirm that the Government will go ahead with the liabilities management authority Bill in...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Apr 2002)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...'t think from the requirements of one tax to another." The Chancellor also boasted in his speech about measures to boost the use of combined heat and power, and about his welcome decision to exempt CHP from the climate change levy. However, the Secretary of State, who has referred to those measures, will be aware that that will not be enough to put right the damage already done to CHP. In...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Apr 2002)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...it. That is something I thoroughly commend. Almost as bad news as what was in the Budget was what was not in it. There was nothing to help to relieve manufacturing industry from the burden of the climate change levy. Indeed, the Budget tore away the fig leaf that Ministers have used in the past to defend the levy—that it is overall revenue neutral due to a compensating cut of 0.3 per...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Steel Imports (21 Mar 2002)

Mr John Whittingdale: ..., which is being sustained by her Government's support for Mr. Mittal's takeover of Corus's foreign competitors, while her Government are destroying the competitiveness of the UK industry through the climate change levy?

Steel Industry (5 Mar 2002)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...as the rest of manufacturing—the weakness of the euro, cheap imports and the cumulative impact of the extra tax and regulation that have been introduced by the Government, not least the climate change levy. In addition, the industry is having to operate in a global market that is suffering from severe overcapacity. In a written answer to me yesterday, the Secretary of State for Trade...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Research and Development (17 Jan 2002)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...resulted in a package worth £20 million, a large part of which will go to the partnership fund, whose major success so far has been to establish an employee forum at Pizza Express. Meanwhile, the climate change levy is costing the engineering sector alone an extra £100 million, even after the cut in national insurance contributions. Was not the general secretary of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Manufacturing (1 Nov 2001)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...Budget submission, business is having to pay an extra £6 billion in tax as a result of his Government's actions? Will he even now try to persuade the Chancellor of the Exchequer to do away with the climate change levy, which, as the Engineering Employers Federation has said, is imposing an ever greater and disproportionate burden on manufacturing at a time when the industry is already...

Maldon Port (26 Nov 1999)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...many visitors. In recent years, however, the volume of mud has steadily increased. The port is slowly silting up. Various factors are probably responsible for that, including rising sea levels and climate change. But the water that once poured over Beeleigh weir into the estuary has been reduced to a trickle so that the flushing of the estuary no longer occurs. That has happened because...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (27 Apr 1999)

Mr John Whittingdale: ...gas emissions do not hold water. Only about 20 per cent. of carbon dioxide emissions are accounted for by the transport sector, compared with 30 per cent. by the energy sector. The Government's climate change document states that, under the previous Government, there was a significant shift away from more carbon-intensive fuels, such as coal and oil, towards lower or zero-emission fuels...