Results 1-9 of 9 for climate change speaker:John Pugh

Pub Ownership (28 Apr 2009)

John Pugh: ...but were unsure as to brewery intentions. These stories are replicated across the piece. Tenants are struggling, not with taxation, per se, not with a lack of ideas and not always with the economic climate, but with the people who own the establishment that they are renting. There is success in the pub industry in my neck of the woods, but it is more commonly found in the free houses,...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Buildings (20 Apr 2009)

John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what buildings are owned or operated by his Department under a private finance initiative (PFI) arrangement; and which companies are involved with each such PFI arrangement.

Topical Debate: Combating Obesity (13 Nov 2008) has video

John Pugh: ...risks of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, infertility and early death—and, a bit like the credit crunch, it is worldwide. Most industrial nations, although they vary a little, depending on climate, demography and the national diet, suffer from that problem, and it appears to be concentrated among the urban poor. The causes are almost universally understood, too, but they are...

Buses (Deregulation) (15 Mar 2006)

John Pugh: ...ways that is a bracing experience, and quite different from being on a tube in London, where one can sometimes look along a carriage and find oneself the oldest person in it. None the less, the climate is completely different. Another reason for not using the buses locally is that the routes are often indirect, and my experience with buses in other cities does not encourage me further. For...

Road Pricing (24 Nov 2005)

John Pugh: ...asking what the question is. It appears to be, "What are we going to do about pollution and congestion?" Both are thoroughly unacceptable. Pollution is unacceptable because of its connection with climate change, and congestion is unacceptable because individuals are inconvenienced and gross inefficiency is built into the economy. That will all be aggravated, according to Government...

Public Bill Committee: Civil Aviation Bill: Clause 1 - Aerodrome charges: noise and emissions (5 Jul 2005)

John Pugh: An interesting semantic point has been raised about whether one can have a form of pollution or an effect from an aeroplane that does not lead to climatic change, such as the increase in cirrus clouds produced by vapour trails, which I am told have no pollution effect. If nothing else, I suppose that the amendment has teased out the distinction. New clause 5 is basically designed to tie down...

Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill (27 Jun 2005)

John Pugh: ..., which is the real test of the Bill. The Bill is largely silent on the favoured main method for addressing emissions, which is emissions trading. Members will be aware that the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research recently produced an horrific report, in which it was sceptical about the utility even of emissions trading in solving the crisis we will get into: effectively, that...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 122 - Climate change levy: exemption (20 Jun 2002)

Mr John Pugh: We shall reserve the thrust of our attack on the measure for Report, but I wish to make some points of principle rather than technical points on the climate change levy at this time. I read a ministerial reply somewhere that said that energy costs were a small factor for industry and that the climate change levy was a small factor within those energy costs. That is true. Much as we welcome...

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Climate Change Levy (29 Nov 2001)

Mr John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations she has received recently from manufacturing industry on the effects of the climate change levy.