Results 1-18 of 18 for climate change speaker:Andrew Mitchell

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Environmental Transformation Fund (4 Mar 2009)

Andrew Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the revenue source of the Environmental Transformation Fund is.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Environmental Transformation Fund (27 Feb 2009)

Andrew Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change through which sub-funds of bilateral and multilateral organisations Environmental Transformation Fund disbursements will be channelled in the next two years.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Environmental Transformation Fund (27 Feb 2009)

Andrew Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change with which other Government Departments his Department works in administering the Environmental Transformation Fund; what the arrangements are for doing so; and what (a) administrative, (b) accounting and (c) reporting structures are in place for this purpose.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Environmental Transformation Fund (12 Feb 2009)

Andrew Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much from the Environmental Transformation Fund has (a) been allocated and (b) disbursed since its inception; what criteria will be used to determine the disbursal of funds unallocated to date; when those funds will be allocated; whether such funds will be disbursed as grants; and through which bilateral and multilateral...

Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 5): Treaty of Lisbon (No. 6) — [6th Allotted Day] (25 Feb 2008)

Andrew Mitchell: ...our common objectives, which our generation has a real chance of achieving. We welcome much of what the Secretary of State said today, particularly his comments towards the end of his speech about climate change. We Conservative Members have argued for some time that the issue for Europe is tackling the three great challenges of our age: global poverty, global warming and global...

Topical Debate: International Development (15 Nov 2007)

Andrew Mitchell: ...last month rightly outlined a big increase in aid spending. The aid budget will increase from £5.4 billion to nearly £8 billion in 2010-11. As the Select Committee has pointed out, the impact of climate change will be earlier and more severe for poor countries. I saw this most starkly recently in Bangladesh, where a tiny rise in the water level will destroy the homes and...

Written Answers — International Development: Departments: Research (29 Oct 2007)

Andrew Mitchell: ...for International Development how much of his Department's research budget will be spent on research into (a) sustainable agriculture, (b) life-threatening diseases, (c) good governance, (d) climate change technology and (e) other matters up to 2010-11; and by what mechanisms funding in each category will be allocated to projects.

Written Answers — International Development: Overseas Aid: Environment Protection (23 Oct 2007)

Andrew Mitchell: ...years; and what research he has (A) commissioned and (B) evaluated on (1) the reduction of poverty through environmental management and (2) means of assisting developing countries to respond to climate change.

[Mr. Eric Illsley in the Chair] — Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (22 Mar 2007)

Andrew Mitchell: ...economic sense. That is made more pressing by the fact that conflict is likely to increase over the next 50 years because of a decrease in natural resources, which has been further exacerbated by climate change. People in the developing world will be likely to suffer most as climate change will make the resources that they depend on, such as fresh water, forests and fisheries more scarce....

Orders of the Day: International Development (26 Oct 2006)

Andrew Mitchell: ...populate the developing world. We can work well with those improving Governments and, by their example, show the rest what can be done. At the moment, the friends of development operate in a benign climate. There is political consensus on the importance of development, and all parties are committed to the unified British approach to development. There is mass public support for the...

Business of the House: International Development (13 Jul 2006)

Andrew Mitchell: ...about his plans for leading such reform within the EU, which would bring EU aid closer to the ideal that we both share? The Secretary of State has made clear the potentially disastrous effects of climate change, particularly for the developing world, whether in the deserts of Africa or the flood plains of Bangladesh, which I am visiting on Monday. Will he tell us what structural changes...

Orders of the Day: Charities Bill (26 Jun 2006)

Andrew Mitchell: ...Minister today. However, the Joint Committee had some serious concerns that have not been addressed. The first was that smaller charities should not be overburdened with regulation, but should be encouraged in a climate that promotes philanthropy. Secondly, the independence of the Charity Commission and the charities sector should not be compromised. Thirdly, the new definitions of...

Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill (7 Dec 2004)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...than 390,000 Jedi knights in Britain. He also dealt with the question of definition. Rowan Atkinson was in the House only yesterday and, like him, the hon. Gentleman talked about the "chilling" of the climate of free expression. That is an excellent phrase. My hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) and the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. McWalter) concentrated on the...

New Clause 1 — Amendment of Companies Act 1985: limit on auditor's liability (No.1): Clause 21 — Power to require documents and information (19 Oct 2004)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...situations as a reason for not rising to the drafting challenge: the possibility that a company trades only at night; that it might not have its own normal business hours; or that it might change them in order to frustrate investigation, the very point made a moment ago by my right hon. Friend. In Committee, the Minister refused to adopt amendments that sought to limit the exercise of the...

Adjournment (Christmas) (19 Dec 2002)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...make such a comment shows breathtaking arrogance and ignorance. The Government have drowned business in red tape. They are the prime problem for businesses. Since May 1997, there have been massive changes in employment law. They include the contract workers regulations, discrimination legislation, the information and consultation directive, the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less...

Social Security (5 Dec 1996)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...is clearly unfair to exclude disability benefit from sensible scrutiny. We need to examine all aspects of current provision to be certain that decisions made about benefit entitlement and payability are still sustainable in the current financial climate. As the House will appreciate, DLA is intended to help with the extra costs associated with disability. A re-examination of the...

Social Security (5 Dec 1996)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: I fully understand my hon. Friend's point. I assure him that current Motability agreements are protected. In the current financial climate, we have to question the use of a social security benefit to enhance provision already made from public funds. Indeed, measures relating to the vast majority of benefits specifically exclude anything that smacks of double provision. In closing, let me...

Health and Social Security (27 Nov 1989)

Mr Andrew Mitchell: ...as possible on the measures to which the international community agrees; and, secondly, as wide a scientific consensus on the major problems as possible. I refer especially to the problems of climate change. In respect of our national policy on the environment, I was delighted to see that the principle of the "polluter pays" will be enshrined in the Bill and that industry will be seen not...