Results 1-14 of 14 for climate change speaker:David Winnick

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Members: Correspondence (6 Dec 2007)

David Winnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when he will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 31 October on the Climate Change Bill.

Environment, Local Government and Education (12 May 1992)

Mr David Winnick: ...of the speech, which contains no mention of unemployment. There is not one word on that subject. Conservative Members may consider this to be old-fashioned, outdated and the rest, but I have not changed my view, any more than my Labour colleagues have, that unemployment casts an unacceptable blot on society and causes immense hardship. Some of us had the privilege of listening to Merlyn...

Prayers: Debate on the Address (31 Oct 1991)

Mr David Winnick: ...mass murderers such as the one who unfortunately continues to rule in Iraq should not be brought to justice. I hope that he will be. The hon. Member for Corby began by saying that much has changed in the past year. It certainly has. On the occasion of the last Queen's Speech the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) was Prime Minister, cheered on loudly by Conservative Members....

El Salvador (2 Feb 1990)

Mr David Winnick: In recent months we have seen the remarkable struggles for change against state repression which have taken place in eastern Europe, which all Labour Members enthusiastically welcome. Unfortunately, repression and tyranny continue in other parts of the world, not least in a number of countries in central and Latin America. Today I shall deal with events in E1 Salvador. I want the Minister to...

Foreign Affairs (14 Jul 1989)

Mr David Winnick: ..., the United States will apply the pressure that must be applied on the Israeli leadership. I want now to talk about the present events in eastern Europe. I welcome the substantial political changes in Hungary. Those changes are warmly welcomed by the Opposition. As long as I live, I am never likely to forget Sunday, 4 November 1956, when the uprising in Hungary was brutally crushed by...

Orders of the Day — Security Service Bill: The Security Service (17 Jan 1989)

Mr David Winnick: .... I have many reasons for being grateful to this country, one of them being that it gave hospitality to my ancestors. Although they were not fleeing, they wanted to live in a different political climate. My final point is about the right of protest, advocacy or dissent. I know that that is covered in the amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills and it is also covered in...

Foreign Affairs (7 Apr 1987)

Mr David Winnick: ...that is the view of most people in politics and the media. I am sure that that view is expressed in one way or another in the country as a whole. However, that is not to minimise in any way the changes that are occurring in the Soviet Union, as the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Lord James Douglas-Hamilton) said. Those changes are of considerable importance. There is undoubtedly a...

Petition: Security Services (Ministerial Control) (4 Apr 1985)

Mr David Winnick: ...public servants—and not only civil servants—on the ground of being subversive is bound to cause further anxiety about security matters. We must be very careful not to allow a climate of intolerance to grow. We know what happened in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the tremendous damage that McCarthyism and the like did there. I think that we can say...

Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill: Deposit by Candidates at Parliamentary Elections (14 Feb 1985)

Mr David Winnick: ...increasing the threshold from the proposed 5 per cent. to 7·5 per cent. That would serve the democratic process better. I stress that I speak for myself on those issues. It would be difficult to change the threshold and deposit on a later occasion. We all know that they were established way back in 1918. If there were a change in the electoral climate, which I do not expect for one...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (14 Mar 1984)

Mr David Winnick: ...or read about it in the press. It is interesting that in yesterday's debate the hon. Member for Staffordshire, Moorlands (Mr. Knox) said: The Budget will … be judged not on the 'technical changes' … but on its general effect on the well-being of the British economy."—[Official Report, 13 March 1984; Vol. 56, c. 323.] He said that the Budget in that respect was "most...

Debate on the Address (22 Jun 1983)

Mr David Winnick: ...and manufacturing industry continues to suffer as it has over the past few years, there is no doubt that unemployment will carry on rising. The Conservatives may find a far more unfavourable climate at the next election, when all the work of Saatchi and Saatchi may not be able to help them. I have grave doubts about whether we shall be able to persuade the Government to take the necessary...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (20 Jul 1981)

Mr David Winnick: ...our questions about the economy and unemployment, nationally and locally, is always the same, regardless of the Minister or the Department. The reply is that the Government's task is to provide the climate in which industry can prosper. We say on the Labour Benches that the climate provided by the Government is one in which redundancies, extensive short-time working, bankruptcies and yet...

MR. and MRS. Albert Carter (Transport Assistance) (16 Apr 1970)

Mr David Winnick: ...extensions to the service, such as the more general issue of cars instead of three-wheelers which would result in an increase in the total cost, will I am afraid, have to wait until the economic climate permits. It would be misleading, however, to suggest that the provision of cars through the National Health Service for persons who, like Mr. Carter, would be unable to drive themselves is...

Orders of the Day — Housing Programme (15 May 1969)

Mr David Winnick: ..., of reaching certain housing targets. Naturally, I want to see many more houses built and to see us reach our target of 500,000 houses a year. We hope that this will be possible once the economic climate improves. But this is not just figures. Consider a family unable to get a council flat who cannot afford a mortgage. It is no good telling such a family they can get a luxury-priced house...