Results 1-10 of 10 for climate change speaker:Stephen Williams
- Business, Innovation and Skills: Graduate Job Prospects (16 Jul 2009) has video
Stephen Williams: ...remember, as graduates discuss their miserable job prospects. Yesterday, we heard the announcement of the Government's aspirations for green jobs and a greener economy, but we cannot meet our 2020 climate change targets without investment in skills—particularly in our engineering base—or without innovation. Would now not be a good time to ensure that all new graduates in...
- Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Young People in the Recession (6 Jul 2009)
Stephen Williams: ...to prosper in future, particularly engineering and sciences. That is essential if we are to have not just a sustainable economy but a sustainable society, and have any chance of meeting our 2020 climate change targets. The previous Labour Government are remembered in history, as they entered their final months, for the winter of discontent. This Labour Government, as they enter their final...
- [Mr. Eric Martlew in the Chair] — Skills Gap (23 Jun 2009)
Stephen Williams: .... The Leitch report was mentioned in the debate, and I said earlier that it had some stretching targets for 2020. However, it brought out very clearly the fact that, because of the demographic change in the work force, 70 per cent. of the 2020 work force to which the targets relate have already left formal education. It will therefore be vital to work not only with people who are currently...
- Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Skills in the Recession (18 May 2009) has video
Stephen Williams: ...Bristol university young engineers and a graduate engineer who are working with Airbus in Bristol. They are taking part in a national project, sponsored by Airbus, to discuss the relationship between aviation and climate change. I have said many times in such debates that there is a consensus around what we are going to do about our other 2020 targets—apart from the Leitch...
- Sale of Mobile Homes (Interviews): New Clause 1 — Quality of further education college buildings (5 May 2009) has video
Stephen Williams: ...even more essential to ensuring that we emerge from the other side of it with a world-class, well-skilled work force. We must meet not only the industrial demands that we will face in the future, but the demands of climate change. We shall need skilled engineers to meet the 2020 targets on which consensus has been reached. There is no point in setting such targets if we do not have the...
- Amendment of the Law (27 Apr 2009) has video
Stephen Williams: ...given an immediate boost to the construction industry and to those who need their jobs to be secure. I hope that there will be many more green jobs in the future, but, if we are to achieve that target and our 2020 climate change targets, we will need many more young people who are technically skilled in science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects, and who leave our...
- Severn Barrage (9 Jul 2008)
Stephen Williams: ...of 2006—appropriately, it took place on the paddle steamer Waverley right in the middle of the Severn. We have to balance many factors when considering this issue. There is the topic of climate change, which is easily the most significant contributor to my postbag and e-mail inbox. There is the UK energy mix and security of supply. There are the costs of any scheme. There is the...
- Petitions: Climate Change (19 Mar 2008) has video
Stephen Williams: I wish to present a petition signed by 1,210 of my constituents and other people throughout the city of Bristol. It concerns climate change, and more specifically the Climate Change (Sectoral Targets) Bill, which is nearing the end of its proceedings in another place and will shortly be presented to this House for further consideration. The petitioners specifically ask for an amendment to be...
- [Mr. Mike Hancock in the Chair] — World Class Skills 2020 (8 Feb 2007)
Stephen Williams: ...their employees so that 90 per cent. of the work force are up to level 2 standard qualifications by 2020. The report says that if we do not see significant evidence that they are making that step change in just three years' time, by 2010, more intervention might be needed. Perhaps the Minister will tell us what intervention he thinks might be needed in three years' time. He might be...
- Representation of the People (Reduction of Voting Age) (29 Nov 2005)
Stephen Williams: ...actually matches what they read in the newspapers that morning. Reducing the voting age to 16 is an idea whose time has come. It is a shame that the Government failed to grasp that opportunity for change in the Electoral Administration Bill. The parliamentary franchise was extended six times between 1832 and 1969. Each extension was met with opposition and scepticism. Indeed, after the...