Results 1-20 of 20 for climate change speaker:George Young

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

George Young: ...and it might need some pump-priming. There will be demand for a totally different range of services as patients invest in packages of care that they have selected. Over time, the market might change as resources are shifted from institutionalised provision, on the one hand, to much more individualised provision on the other. There might be fewer block contracts, there will need to be much...

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Objects (21 Jul 2008) has video

George Young: ...is not hatching any plans to make a designation order in respect of any part of England in the relatively near future? At the beginning and end of his speech, the Minister said rightly that the climate had changed. There was an implication that the amendments under consideration were a response to that change, but I hope that he will not make that case. The climate has changed, and if he...

Thatched Roofs (Planning Policy) (7 May 2008)

George Young: ...and thatching styles for listed building consent. A cottage thatched with traditional long straw must be re-thatched with traditional long straw. However, that straw is becoming scarce due to changing farming practices. The problem is now critical as a result of the poor harvest last year. Re-thatching with any straw—whether long straw or combed wheat reed, as in Hampshire—is...

Thatched Roofs (Planning Policy) (7 May 2008)

George Young: ...appeal is outstanding against the decision of South Cambridgeshire district council. I do not expect the Minister to comment on that, but I raise it as an example. In 2004, an appeal was lost to change the style of thatching from long straw to combed wheat reed. The property was then re-thatched in the long straw style using triticale, but the council have now imposed an enforcement notice...

Deferred Division: Repossessions and the Housing Market (2 Apr 2008) has video

George Young: ...and, paradoxically, their numbers will be swollen by those who find that they are repossessed and those for whom home ownership is no longer a practical possibility. There has been a fundamental change over the past 25 years in how we fund social housing. If we had had this debate in the early 1980s, the trends that we have been talking about this afternoon would have had no impact at all...

Orders of the Day: Schedule 11 — Repeals (31 Mar 2008) has video

George Young: ...for promotion to other Departments that are more accident-prone than the one in which he currently serves. He did a first-class job. The Minister will have noticed that there has been a total change in the housing climate since we debated the Bill on Second Reading in November. It is now a much colder climate than when we started. The base rate has gone down, but the borrowing rates have...

Topical Debate: Standards and Privileges (27 Mar 2008) has video

George Young: ...two parts, with the first containing the existing categories of pecuniary interest, and the second containing the new category of relatives employed. The House is today being asked to approve that change in the scope and nature of the register. I am grateful to the Leader of the House for providing time for an early debate on our report. We also sought views on whether there should be a...

Orders of the Day: Energy Saving (Daylight) Bill (26 Jan 2007)

George Young: ..., and I was summoned to take a much higher position than the one with which I eventually ended up. My point is on the issue of balance. The components of the argument have remained virtually unchanged for the past 100 years, but I strongly believe that the balance of the argument has shifted decisively over the past 40 years. As has been pointed out, the numbers working in agriculture have...

Public Bill Committee: Finance (No. 2) Bill: Clause 172 (20 Jun 2006)

George Young: ...Sir John. Thismay be my last contribution to this Finance Bill. It is 10 years since I last participated in a Finance Bill Committee, and I think it will be 10 years before I do another. The clause changes the rate of the climate change levy, and I have no difficulty with the principle behind it. I should like clarification on two issues. As the explanatory note says, the rates are being...

Public Bill Committee: Health Bill: 4.5 pm (13 Dec 2005)

George Young: ...regime and the creation of the criminal offence of smoking in a public place. I am minded to be persuaded by her argument. My concern is that if, in a few years’ time, we have successfully changed the climate and non-smoking becomes the norm, we will need primary legislation to remove clause 6. If we do make substantial progress, is there a better way of dealing with clause 6 than...

Business of the House (23 Nov 2000)

Sir George Young: ...Lords amendments on the first three days of next week. Will she tell the House whether, before we begin to consider those Bills, there are likely to be Government statements on The Hague summit on climate change and on the rural White Paper? Will she confirm that there are likely to be 118 Lords amendments to the Freedom of Information Bill, 280 amendments to the Countryside and Rights of...

Orders of the Day — The Economy (1 Dec 1998)

Sir George Young: ...in words that a child could understand, and his speech should be widely read. From basic economics to advanced psychology: my right hon. Friend the Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) was right to point out that climate, mood, confidence and the feel-good factor are important to economic success. At the moment, as he rightly pointed out, they are not there. He also expressed the hope that the...

Urban Deprivation (Liverpool) (16 Jan 1986)

Sir George Young: Those are the figures given to us by Liverpool city council, and they are vacant dwellings in its area. Any district council will have some houses that are empty because tenants are changing or the properties are awaiting refurbishment, but the percentage in Liverpool is 3·35. That is relatively high. In Birmingham it is 2·15 per cent. and in Gateshead it is 2·59 per cent. The...

Schedule 6: Housing (Burnley) (25 Jul 1984)

Sir George Young: ...authorities could expect to receive allocations of at least 80 per cent. and 70 per cent. of the current year's allocation provided that they could justify the need for that level of expenditure. That position was not changed by last week's announcement about local authority capital expenditure. Burnley therefore will benefit from having a relatively high starting point on which at least...

Orders of the Day — Urea Formaldehyde Foam (7 May 1982)

Sir George Young: ...Security, who is the Government's senior adviser on health matters, has indicated that the completed studies of people exposed to formaldehyde vapour have not found any evidence that it causes cancer, changes in lung structure, or permanent impairment of lung function in man."—[Official Report, 18 March 1982; Vol. 20, c. 193.] Further research on animals in the United States is being...

Clause 3: Fluoridation (6 Mar 1980)

Sir George Young: .... That claim has been examined in much detail by cancer epidemiologists and medical statisticians here and in North America, who have independently concluded that there is no difference in the changes in cancer mortality in the two groups of cities when appropriate corrections are made for demographic factors that play an important part in the complex matter of cancer causation. Much is...

Leicestershire Area Health Authority (Finance) (21 Feb 1980)

Sir George Young: ...that such decisions, difficult and unpopular though they may be, have to be taken if health authorities are to manage within their budgets. I am afraid that it is inevitable in the present economic climate that some highly desirable health improvements must regrettably wait. However, it would be wrong to think that progress is not being made. A major building programme is under way in the...

Clause 2: Hospital Services (Nottingham) (16 Jul 1979)

Sir George Young: ...that such decisions, difficult and unpopular though they may be, have to be taken if health authorities are to manage within their budgets. I am afraid that it is inevitable in the present economic climate that some highly desirable Health Service improvements will take longer than we would all wish. At a meeting on 7 June, the Nottinghamshire area health authority discussed the next...

Orders of the Day — Student Awards (7 Mar 1977)

Sir George Young: ...grants which appear on page 249 of the Consolidated Fund Bill will not be able to be spent at Thomas Huxley College in my constituency, since that college is threatened with closure. It is this change in the pattern of expenditure under the Consolidated Fund that I wish to raise tonight. I must confess to surprise at Thomas Huxley featuring in the list of proposed closures, since, in a...

Clause 5: Rate of Child Benefit (7 Jul 1975)

Sir George Young: ...load on to the shoulders of families with children the whole cost of the attack on poverty contained in the Bill, the Opposition must resist. Not only has the relative position of these families changed, but they are entering the tax bracket much earlier than they did a few years ago. In reply to a Parliamentary Question on 17th June, I was told that a married man with three children...