Results 1-14 of 14 for climate change speaker:Jacqui Lait

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Planning Act 2008 (3 Nov 2009)

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change which draft national policy statements under the Planning Act 2008 for which his Department is responsible he expects to publish before March 2010.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Kingsnorth Power Station (23 Apr 2009)

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd) of 5 March 2009, Official Report, column 1805W, on Kingsnorth power station, what the timetable is for the planned new consultation on a new framework for coal-fired power stations; and if he will make a statement.

Orders of the Day: Clause 5 — National policy statements (24 Nov 2008) has video

Jacqui Lait: ...fundamental issues have not been addressed, and they are the basis of our objections to much of the Bill. I begin, however, by congratulating the Government on taking into account concerns about climate change and design. That represents a great step forward from the original Bill, which talked about sustainable development. However, on close reading of the Lords amendment, one is slightly...

Orders of the Day: Clause 207 — CIL regulations: general (24 Nov 2008) has video

Jacqui Lait: ..., the well-known exception of the Budget. Lord Jenkin cited the fact that both Houses have discussed national insurance, council tax, business rates, the business improvement district levy, the climate change levy, and other charges. One or two of those are collected centrally. The community infrastructure levy is allegedly not going to be collected centrally; it is going to be collected...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy Bill 2007-08 (28 Oct 2008)

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what representations he has received on the powers of entry provisions in the Energy Bill relating to carbon dioxide inspectors.

Orders of the Day: New Clause 8 — Parliamentary requirements (2 Jun 2008) has video

Jacqui Lait: ...the statements. We need a bit more detail, but we are unlikely to get that at this stage; perhaps the other House will be more able to tease out how the system will work. I tabled our amendments on climate change to ensure that the issue was debated; I also welcome the amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew). Again, we had the debate in Committee; the hon. Gentleman may...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Planning Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (2 Jun 2008) has video

Jacqui Lait: ...decisions are to be made acceptable to the British public, we believe that Parliament should decide, not the Government. The debate on that takes place later this evening, as does the debate on climate change, which is also high up the political agenda. I hope that those debates will attract many participants, but it is a scandal, given how few Government Back Benchers are present, that...

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Clause 13 (22 Jan 2008)

Jacqui Lait: ...of the arguments about the Secretary of State’s or Ministers’ quasi-judicial role in planning. We support the deletion of these subsections. With their inclusion, will we see an instant change, if not in this House perhaps in another House, to the proposals that we are expecting in the marine Bill? We are debating the Energy Bill, which has an impact. We have debated the...

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill (17 Jan 2008)

Jacqui Lait: ...statements.”——[Official Report, Planning Public Bill Committee, 10 January 2008; c. 102.] That encapsulates our point exactly. We are all very concerned about sustainability and climate change. One of the suspected consequences of current climate change is the flooding we saw last summer and a number of Members are suffering from floods in their constituencies as we sit...

Public Bill Committee: Planning: Schedule 1 (15 Jan 2008)

Jacqui Lait: ...development. We wish to see, as everyone does, the commission take very close account of the environment and the need to ensure that it is improved and that we do our bit to ensure that the impact of climate change is reduced. Getting the strategic environmental assessment into all the commission’s considerations is paramount. Once the NPSs have gone through this place and been...

Orders of the Day: Planning Bill (10 Dec 2007)

Jacqui Lait: ...power over energy to Scotland and Wales, or they have not realised the impact of what they are doing. Finally, strategies need to be continually updated. Many hon. Members have talked about climate change. Everybody will know how speedily the technology dealing with climate change and energy production is changing. If strategies are set in stone, the Government will have to revise them...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Planning White Paper (10 Jul 2007) has video

Jacqui Lait: ...Will he be advising the Government's new unelected planning quango to give the green light to green belt destruction? What assessment has he made of the effect of concreting over the green belt on climate change and flooding? Are not the Prime Minister's warm words on listening to communities, which my hon. Friends have mentioned, just empty rhetoric and spin from a controlling,...

Orders of the Day: Greater London Authority Bill (12 Dec 2006)

Jacqui Lait: ...to the Committee, but I would just like to draw the House's attention to concerns that the head of paid service will take over responsibility for hiring some staff. We do not see the need for that change. We know that the City of London still has concerns and will be seeking reassurances about the City of London museum, a national museum of which I am particularly fond and which has done a...

Tobacco and Alcohol Smuggling (24 May 1995)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: ...to continue to remind the Treasury and my hon. Friend the Paymaster General of the concern that a number of my hon. Friends and I feel about the smuggling of tobacco and alcohol. In the current climate, it is difficult to balance the various claims. Some claim that the supply of tobacco and alcohol to vulnerable groups has not increased. But those of us who know of this problem are very...