Results 1-12 of 12 for climate change speaker:Chris Grayling

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Unemployment in the UK (7 Oct 2008) has video

Chris Grayling: ...into reality now, rather than in two years' time or more. People think that talking about welfare reform at a time of rising unemployment is a contradiction in terms; how can one introduce big new changes to the welfare-to-work process when the number of jobs is falling? That is not the right view to take, because we know about the experience from the other side of the Atlantic. When I...

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Unemployment in the UK (7 Oct 2008) has video

Chris Grayling: ...to argue the case with him on the doorsteps of pensioners in my constituency and elsewhere. We need to take steps to protect small businesses that face a sudden problem, especially in the current climate of difficult times and in the months ahead. At the moment, our insolvency rules do not do enough to stop those firms going under. That needs to be changed as a matter of urgency. The...

Orders of the Day: The Economy and Pensions (14 Nov 2007)

Chris Grayling: ...It was all about Gordon knows best, and not about the British people knowing best. Of course there are some things in it that we welcome, such as the support for youth projects, and the measures on climate change and deposit insurance. But too much of it is a rehash of the failed messages of the past 10 years. Indeed, Ministers sometimes appear to have forgotten just how long they have...

Written Answers — Transport: Departments: Carbon Emissions (19 Jun 2007)

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether his Department is on track to deliver the projected carbon savings of 5.1 MtC by 2010 as set out in the 2000 climate change programme; and if he will make a statement.

Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]: Transport Strategy (5 Dec 2006)

Chris Grayling: ...the incentives to purchase such cars. The hon. Gentleman needs to understand that road-pricing schemes are primarily about managing congestion. The truth is that the real challenge in meeting our climate change goals, given that we are not, I assume, moving within the next few years to the kind of national scheme that the Government have talked about—they appear to be backing away...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

Chris Grayling: ...their cars, have driving licences and pay their insurance. The drivers who get away with offences are the ones who completely ignore the law. Criminals tend not to take the time to call Swansea and change their address details. They tend not to pay their insurance premiums, or reply when they get a letter from the police telling them that they were speeding. They are getting away with all...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 137 - Liability to pay NHS charges (17 Jun 2003)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...past two or three years, there has been a huge jump in the level of employers' liability insurance. That has partly been a result of the international situation, but has also been a consequence of changing assessments of risk. Increasingly, we live in a compensation culture. More and more people want to take companies, doctors and their local hospitals to court. People will take a school...

Health (Wales) Bill: Clause 2 — Wales Centre for Health (9 Jan 2003)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...protection and improvement of health in Wales available to the public in Wales". It will also have responsibility for research and training, both of which could be equally important in the current climate. This is happening at a time of change for the infrastructure for the establishment of information—and, in part, for the provision of information—about communicable diseases...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: Schedule 37 — Aggregates levy amendments (4 Jul 2002)

Mr Chris Grayling: ..., without affecting jobs and investment. The Budget's cumulative tax measures will have an adverse effect on businesses beyond North sea oil. We have discussed the impact of the aggregates levy and the climate change levy. In Committee, we talked about the problems that the aggregates levy will pose in remote areas where such companies are often the principal local employer and a real...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 125 - Climate change levy: invoices (20 Jun 2002)

Mr Chris Grayling: The clause is obviously welcome because it will protect some of the businesses affected by the climate change levy. Will the Economic Secretary consider the fact that the climate change levy is reaching businesses that arguably it should not? I can give him one specific example of a butcher shop in Ewell village in my constituency which is subject to the levy. Although I understand the...

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Climate Change Levy (23 Nov 2001)

Mr Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in what circumstances a butcher's shop could be liable for payments under the climate change levy.

The Economy, Trade and Industry (25 Jun 2001)

Mr Chris Grayling: ...businesses but the smaller companies in places such as Ewell, Stoneleigh and Epsom, which are the engine of our local economy. They face real challenges of regulation and doing business in tough climates, and I look forward to being a powerful advocate of their cause in the years ahead. Interestingly, I am only the second Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell since 1918 to take his seat...