Results 1-7 of 7 for climate change speaker:Tony Wright

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Housing: Insulation (27 Mar 2009)

Tony Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assistance is available from his Department to enable households with solid walls to improve the insulation of their houses.

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Ministers and Civil Servants (30 Oct 2008)

Tony Wright: ...is to keep an eye on what the Government get up to. That takes us in a number of different directions. Recently, it has taken us in the direction of reporting on the machinery of making government changes. Again, the subject is not exciting in itself, but we highlighted the fact that, although other public bodies are expected to engage in consultation when they want to reorganise...

Business of the House: Standing Orders Etc. (Energy and Climate Change) (28 Oct 2008) has video

Tony Wright: ...very imaginative in thinking about how the system might work differently. In a sense, the Government can be commended for thinking more thematically and sensibly about producing a departmental change to reflect a changing aspect of Government, but the consequence is that the House must think about how it can match that in an intelligent way. It may not be the most intelligent response...

Orders of the Day: Treasury and Work and Pensions (27 Nov 2006)

Tony Wright: ...meets the fact that a group of people has been the victim of the lack of regulation in an area and wants that area remedied. That is one group of people who would have expected more from today's exchanges. A second such group is made up of all those people, possibly numbering up to 120,000, who lost some or all of their occupational pension scheme when schemes wound up between 1997 and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (14 Jul 2004)

Dr Tony Wright: ...ask him about the elections? In just four months' time, the people of the United States may well elect a new Administration. Will he stand shoulder to shoulder with a new American Administration on climate change, the middle east and renewing the coalition against terror?

Government Performance Measurement (26 Feb 2004)

Dr Tony Wright: ...that we began work, towards the end of 2002 when we were still in the grip of the high tide of targetry, we began to have a constructive dialogue with Government. The nature of the conversation changed considerably over the following months, so that by the time that we came to report in July 2003 the Government were much more minded to think seriously about what we were saying and to find...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: General Right of Access to Information Held by Public Authorities (27 Nov 2000)

Dr Tony Wright: ...(Mr. Hughes). I shall instead precede him. Throughout consideration of the Bill, there has been much discussion of the famous clause 28—the class exemption for investigatory bodies. The climate in which we have discussed that matter has clearly changed. Until recently, it could have been said that freedom of information was a matter for the chattering classes. Indeed, I am told that...