Results 1-16 of 16 for climate change speaker:George Osborne

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: ...spending plans. During the Budget speech, the Chancellor announced from that Dispatch Box that current spending would grow by 0.7 per cent. from 2011 onwards. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change now says that those spending plans are not valid because there might be a spending review before then. That is the basis of the question. He said that there was going to be a...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: ...and to highlight the points that the Chancellor of the Exchequer entirely omitted from his speech yesterday lunchtime. It is also a pleasure to do so opposite the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. The Chancellor has let me know that he is on his way to an important meeting in Washington, and I entirely accept that.

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: ...the whole thing as "Alistair in Wonderland". I guess that that leaves the Prime Minister as our mad hatter—and given the expression on the face of the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, he is the white rabbit. As I say, the IMF was not the only one to question the central Budget assumptions. Almost every single business organisation and independent forecaster followed...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: ...Vol. 483, c. 716.] That commitment—that promise—given by the Prime Minister just a few months ago is now completely worthless. We will see whether the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change repeats it today. How on earth can the Prime Minister be trusted to get the future right when he does not understand the mistakes of the past or the problems of the present? The...

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

George Osborne: It is a telling comment from a person who was appointed just days after the Prime Minister became Prime Minister. No doubt the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and his cronies, such as the Chief Secretary, plotted the appointment of Digby Jones for months. They thought it would be a brilliant appointment. I have to say that some Members, including me, were sceptical about...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

George Osborne: ...as a showroom tax, but the key difference in our approach is that rises in green taxes should be offset with tax reductions elsewhere. That is the only way to command any public confidence that the changes are transparent weapons in the fight against climate change, not sneaky devices for raising more stealth taxes. While we are on the subject of sneaky green taxes, why did not the...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

George Osborne: ...the proceeds of growth. We need a long-term plan to reverse the slide in our country's ability to compete by simplifying reliefs and lowering corporation tax rates. We need a long-term plan to combat climate change by building public confidence in green taxation, rather than making such taxes stealth taxes. We need a long-term plan to help aspiring families by taking nine out of 10...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2007)

George Osborne: ...Chancellor. Entitled "DEFRA's Priorities for the Budget of 2007", it states that "market based instruments, including taxes, need to play a substantial role in our emerging strategy to respond to climate change". I think that we all agree with that. The letter went on to say that "emissions from aviation are our fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions...air travel is lightly...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: G7 Finance Ministers (1 Mar 2007)

George Osborne: One of the most important issues that the G7 Finance Ministers will be dealing with is of course climate change. Carbon emissions in Britain have risen in the past 10 years and continue to rise. We have discovered that this week, the Chancellor's Smith Institute trustee, Deborah Mattinson, told a private Labour meeting that there is public "dissatisfaction with the government's performance"...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: G7 Finance Ministers (1 Mar 2007)

George Osborne: Of course the European Union can do things to tackle climate change: it does not mean that we have to give up all our sovereignty to let it do them —[ Interruption. ] Now listen, I am asking the Chancellor about the views of Deborah Mattinson. I am surprised that he cannot agree, because she is his personal pollster and the event at which she was speaking was called "Brown's first 100...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Pre-Budget Report (6 Dec 2006)

George Osborne: ...the 300,000 people who have lost their jobs. How could the Chancellor possibly have the nerve to speak for 40 minutes without addressing the crisis in the NHS? He had no new answers today. He promised a change of gear, but as usual all we got was more of the same. His speech was full of rhetoric about the long term, but he did not address the central, long-term economic question that we...

Orders of the Day: Treasury and Work and Pensions (27 Nov 2006)

George Osborne: ...growth since 1997; deplore the absence of measures to give the UK the right skills to take advantage of new global opportunities; further regret the absence of strong and binding measures to tackle climate change and environmental degradation; condemn the absence of measures to ensure real improvements in the public services and greater value for money for taxpayers; and further regret the...

Public Bill Committee: Child Trust Funds Bill: Clause 12 - Subscription limits (15 Jan 2004)

Mr George Osborne: ...is limited interest in them, but that does not mean that the Government will not proceed with the policy. There may also be limited interest in transferring shares, but it is easy to foresee a changing financial climate in which people would be much more interested in making such transfers. The amendment would not require people to do so; it would merely provide an option. We are not...

Finance Bill (6 May 2003)

Mr George Osborne: ..., a tomato grower in Over Peover, who has several acres under greenhouses. Anyone who wants to grow tomatoes commercially has to heat the greenhouses. As a result, Mr. Rudd has been stung by the climate change levy, which has cost him hundreds of pounds. When the rebate ends, his bill will go up further. That levy does nothing to protect the environment or reduce his heating bill. All it...

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (27 Jan 2003)

Mr George Osborne: Does the Minister concede that one burden placed on British Energy has been the climate change levy, which, according to some estimates, has cost the company between £80 million and £100 million? Does he agree that since the levy was designed to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide, it is complete nonsense to apply it to the nuclear industry, which does not produce it?

Police (8 Mar 2002)

Mr George Osborne: ...among police who had retreated from the streets into their patrol cars? First, they implemented the "broken windows" theory, which states that tackling low-level social disorder helps to create a climate in which more serious crime does not take place. Secondly, they took the police out of the patrol cars and the precincts and put them on the streets, defying conventional police thinking...