Results 1-7 of 7 for climate change speaker:Adam Price
- Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)
Adam Price: ...a green industrial revolution". Even Jonathon Porritt of the Sustainable Development Commission has said that the scale of Government investment "is not going to put us on track to achieving the extremely ambitious targets of the Climate Change Act", and the Campaign for Better Transport has observed: "The Budget is a missed opportunity on transport." We have not seen the green new deal....
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy (26 Nov 2008)
Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made on the package of energy measures announced by the Prime Minister on 11 September 2008.
- Orders of the Day: Planning and Energy Bill (25 Jan 2008)
Adam Price: The Minister just said that the clause will place a general duty to refer to climate change measures. It does not go into microgeneration or low-energy generation, which are what we are talking about today. The two things are related, but they are not the same.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Biofuels (6 Mar 2007)
Adam Price: A 5 per cent. biofuel mix can, almost by definition, make only a small contribution to combating climate change. A year ago not a single car in the Government fleet had been converted to use an 85 per cent. biofuel blend. How many have been converted since then?
- Public Expenditure (14 Jul 2004)
Mr Adam Price: ...case for consultation." On Monday 7 July 2003, Labour's website ran the following article: "Workers set to gain consultation rights . . . Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt said she wants the changes to lead to an 'no surprises' culture at work and 'an end to the climate where people only hear about job losses from the media, over their breakfasts." If that were not enough, the...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Climate Change Levy (19 Mar 2003)
Mr Adam Price: Will the Minister specifically consider offering further concessions to the steel industry in relation to the climate change levy and take into account the industry's concerns about the effect of the landfill tax? Can he confirm that the UK Government have sought approval from the Commission for emergency state aid on a contingency basis, which the Dutch Government have already done?
- Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill (13 May 2002)
Mr Adam Price: ...the Government embraced the idea of shifting the burden of taxation from employment to phenomena that are more negative in terms of social welfare, such as environmental pollution. We saw that with the climate change levy. We now see a shift of the burden back on to employment. We have not had a satisfactory explanation of the rationale that lies behind that. It is irrefutable that if...