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Business of the House: UK Climate Projections (18 Jun 2009) has video

Alan Reid: Agriculture depends on a finely tuned climate balance, and the projected changes in the climate will have severe implications for agriculture in this country and throughout the world. What is the Government's strategy to ensure that farmers here can cope with climate change and that we have the flexibility to increase production in this country if climate change should cause natural disasters...

Point of Order: Whitsun Adjournment (25 May 2006)

Alan Reid: ...few constituency issues. I represent a large rural constituency, so transport is a key issue and will be the theme of all the issues that I shall raise. Faced with the threat of global warming and climate change, we need to use the taxation system to change people's behaviour and encourage them to use more public transport where it is available. However, public transport is not a practical...

Fisheries (7 Dec 2005)

Alan Reid: ...box is avoided at the specific times of the year. The views of the CFA on the cod by-catch are backed up by a written answer that I received from the Minister's predecessor, now the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, as long ago as 7 November 2002. It stated: "We have already reminded the Commission of our view—substantiated last year by detailed scientific...

UK Space Policy (23 Nov 2005)

Alan Reid: .... Satellite services have a crucial role to play in extending broadband networks to households throughout the country, particularly in those remote and rural areas that are too far from telephone exchanges to be able to receive broadband on a landline. Satellites can also play an important role in monitoring the Earth, helping to forecast the weather, measuring climate change and aiding...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Flood Risks (Urban Areas) (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Alan Reid: I think that we would all accept that the root cause of a lot of the flooding is climate change. Given that the United States undoubtedly puts the most greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and that we are supposed to have a special relationship with the United States, what efforts are the Government making to—

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

Mr Alan Reid: I, too, support the amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond). Climate change is leading to higher sea levels and increasingly violent storms, which means that coastal communities are under even greater pressure. Coastal communities on the Atlantic islands suffer from extremely violent storms and are under great threat from coastal erosion. The aggregates tax...