Results 1-8 of 8 for climate change speaker:Vera Baird

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Departments: Renewable Energy (8 May 2007)

Vera Baird: The amount of energy that DCA purchased from renewable sources that was climate change levy exempt during 2005-06 was 14,127,483 kwh.

[Sir Nicholas Winterton in the Chair] — Legal Aid (11 Jan 2007)

Vera Baird: ...from £109 million in 2004-05 to £129 million in 2005-06—an increase of 10.8 per cent. per certificate issued. If we consider civil and family cases together in that context, we see that the climate is hardly one in which we would expect huge numbers of civil or family practitioners to go out of business. That nostrum has been given much ventilation over the summer, but it...

Written Answers — Constitutional Affairs: Renewable Energy (19 Dec 2006)

Vera Baird: ...Commerce buying solutions framework for energy supply on 1 November 2006. The sites supplied through the framework by British Gas all receive electricity from renewable sources and exempt from the climate change levy. We are currently mid-way through migrating our sites onto the framework, which will increase the overall renewable energy received and in addition two of our larger sites,...

Energy Review (Human Rights) (2 May 2006)

Vera Baird: ...that assesses countries across a range of rights and issues as free, partly free or not free, Russia has declined from partly free to not free in the past two years. It says that Russians cannot change the Government democratically because the state's far-reaching control of the broadcast media and the growing harassment of Opposition parties make that impossible. There was strong evidence...

Process Industries (Tees Valley) (25 Jan 2006)

Vera Baird: ...indicates that it is practical to make shipping lines reroute to Teesport, because of the calibre of its facilities, the labour available and so on. Presumably, those shipping lines already appreciate that the climate-friendly elements of a shorter distribution network to the north-east, north-west and Scotland also stand them in good stead. The whole community backs the development of...

Adjournment (Whitsun) (26 May 2005)

Vera Baird: ...a series of owners, but it started to kick off in 2000 when it was taken over by Nikko, appropriately described as venture capitalists; then there was a sale in 2004 and a flotation on the stock exchange. It has developed through that series of steps, increasing container traffic, for example, from 20,000 units in 2001 to 90,000 units in 2002. It has dynamic, ambitious management. In 2003...

Wind Farms (25 Oct 2004)

Ms Vera Baird: ...of a major new industry that is entirely apt, but not exclusively so, to the north-east. The Government are to be congratulated on the fact that their future far offshore wind policy will not only benefit climate change but will simultaneously offer regeneration opportunities. I make a nod in the direction of Greenpeace, from which I have taken some of the statistics I have cited. It is...

Human Rights (19 Nov 2001)

Ms Vera Baird: ...lawfulness will continue as long as real efforts are being maintained to go through due process, or to find such people a place to go. Furthermore, that lawfulness may simply never run out. Times change; people might be able to go to countries in six months' time that they cannot go to now. A third country that is not available now might be available in six months' time. The political...