Results 1-20 of 41 for climate change speaker:Nicholas Winterton
- Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (5 Nov 2009) has video
Nicholas Winterton: With the introduction of climate change measures, what is the average additional levy that gas and electricity users pay on their bills each quarter?
- Energy and Climate Change: Climate Change (Public Awareness) (9 Jul 2009) has video
Nicholas Winterton: Would the Minister accept that, for many, especially those on low incomes and the elderly, the consequences of climate change have merely been higher energy prices than normal? Energy prices are so critical to the elderly and those on low incomes, so could she and the Government be a little more sensitive in introducing policies so that the most vulnerable are not the worst affected?
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions (11 Jun 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps he is taking to ensure the co-ordination of information from Government departments and agencies in respect of energy efficiency; and if he will make a statement.
- Energy and Climate Change: Topical Questions (4 Jun 2009) has video
Nicholas Winterton: Will the Minister accept that the European Commission's proposals to mitigate climate change could well cost this country £9 billion a year by 2020? It is estimated that that could put 1 million more households into fuel poverty, and increase the average fuel bill by £200. Is that what the Government want to achieve? I am not sure that that will be very popular. Should they not pay...
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (1 Jun 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what pilot projects his Department has undertaken on the use of alternative forms of energy generation for the alleviation of fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (1 Jun 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what pilot projects run by organisations sponsored by his Department are designed to assess the suitability of alternative forms of energy generation for the alleviation of fuel poverty; which such pilots comprise part of his Department's assessment of the Government's future strategy on fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Fuel Poverty (1 Jun 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the (a) age, (b) construction type and (c) Standard Assessment Procedure ratings are of each domestic dwelling included in pilot schemes on the suitability of air source heat pumps for the alleviation of fuel poverty wholly or partly funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions (6 May 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will introduce the proposed pay as you save initiative in advance of 2013.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions (28 Apr 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will review his Department's programme designed to promote energy efficiency to ensure effectiveness.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy: Finance (28 Apr 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Wealden (Charles Hendry) of 26 February 2009, Official Report, column 931W, on renewable energy, when he plans to begin the consultation on feed-in tariffs.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Global Warming (23 Apr 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent scientific evidence his Department has evaluated on global warming.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions (20 Apr 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will take steps to attract private sector funding for his Department's programmes designed to improve the energy efficiency of domestic properties.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Carbon Emissions (20 Apr 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will assess the effectiveness of incentives to increase energy efficiency.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Global Warming (5 Mar 2009)
Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent assessment he has made of the scientific evidence for global warming.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food Security (Climate Change) (31 Jan 2008) has video
Nicholas Winterton: ..., however, to keep this matter in balance, and to say to anyone who criticises the farming industry that the value of the livestock industry far outweighs any contribution that it might make to climate change?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Climate Change (Economic Impact) (24 Jan 2008)
Nicholas Winterton: ...? In respect of industry, to follow up on the last question, it would be easy to make British manufacturing industry far less competitive, but we would be a fool to do so, given that so much of climate change is caused by other places and not this country, and given that there remains considerable scientific debate about the impact of climate change.
- Opposition Day — [5th allotted day]: Network Rail (8 Jan 2008) has video
Nicholas Winterton: ...services, all I can say is that it shows how the Government are not joined up at all. They are trying to achieve objectives, but in the process, they are dramatically undermining the ability to change travelling behaviour and get more people onto public transport. In my area of Cheshire, east Cheshire and Macclesfield, public transport is inadequate. Reducing the number of local trains...
- Amendment of the Law (21 Mar 2007)
Nicholas Winterton: The right hon. Gentleman is making a good case about a responsible attitude to climate change and global warming, but does he share my deep concern about the dramatic loss of jobs in manufacturing, which can be impacted upon by taxes that are brought in, perhaps for a good reason, in respect of climate change? I refer, in particular, to the aggregate levy that the Chancellor is increasing....
- Points of Order (13 Mar 2007)
Nicholas Winterton: ...seek your advice and help. According to today's Order Paper, a written ministerial statement is to be made today by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the draft climate change Bill. Could you advise me on whether this matter should be the subject of a statement here on the Floor of the House, given the importance of the issue and the controversy surrounding...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Greenhouse Gases (18 May 2006)
Nicholas Winterton: ...), with a constituency company in the aerospace industry that is having problems with emissions. The company is Senior Aerospace and it is critical to the aerospace industry. Will the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment do me the courtesy of meeting me and my constituency company to discuss its future?