Results 1-14 of 14 for climate change speaker:Kitty Ussher

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change (10 Jun 2009)

Kitty Ussher: All Departments are actively involved in the cross-Government Adapting to Climate Change Programme, which aims to help society adapt to climate change. The role of the programme is to develop and provide a comprehensive evidence base including adaptation tools, to raise awareness of the need to adapt, to measure success and to work across Government at all levels to embed adaptation. Further...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change (10 Jun 2009)

Kitty Ussher: It is not currently possible to provide estimates of the potential costs and savings over the next three years. It has, however, been shown in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change that timely and well-targeted climate adaptation measures will yield benefits in excess of their costs. Some of these benefits will accrue to Departments as cost-savings over the next three years,...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 30 (9 Jun 2009)

Kitty Ussher: ...to the Committee to have an explanation of what we are trying to achieve. We are comprehensively reforming the rules on tax relief for business expenditure on cars. There are two incentives for change. The first incentive is simplification, on which we have responded to lobbying from the industry. Secondly, we wish to ensure that the rules on tax relief for business expenditure on cars...

Family Benefits (Absent Teenage Fathers) (2 Jun 2009) has video

Kitty Ussher: ...of behaviours that they see all around them—the very behaviours that have often led to child poverty being handed down from generation to generation? How do we break that cycle? How do we change the presumptions that society sometimes unfortunately makes? I will address all the points that my hon. Friend made, starting with the issues that he raised about supporting fathers,...

Written Ministerial Statements — Work and Pensions: Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (9 Oct 2008)

Kitty Ussher: ...provisions. The Council also adopted an agreement establishing a European Year for Combating Poverty in 2010. Under Any Other Business, the Commission reported on progress with an electronic data exchange system to help administer the social security co-ordination Regulation and on a recent summit on the Roma. The presidency also reported on the Equal Opportunities Summit held in Paris in...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 143 (12 Jun 2008)

Kitty Ussher: ...s question gets to the point. We have been slightly mystified ourselves. May I give a bit of context? In 2003, we applied to the European Commission for state aid approval for an exemption from the climate change levy for electricity generated from coal mine methane. The Commission ruled that the exemption constituted state aid but was approvable for five years under the Community...

Written Answers — Treasury: Combined Heat and Power: Finance (12 Jun 2008)

Kitty Ussher: ...31 March 2013, and the Government will make an announcement on the decision to seek an extension in due course. The Chancellor keeps all taxes and associated exemptions under review. In addition to climate change levy exemptions, the Government provide support for combined heat and power (CHP) via a number of mechanisms. For example: The 2007 pre-Budget report stated that the Government...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 19 (15 May 2008)

Kitty Ussher: ...effect than the EU emissions trading scheme, even though that scheme is now proving extremely useful. I reject the suggestion that we are incoherent. We have a wide range of measures to combat climate change, and they reinforce each other in a positive way. As for the question of precisely how firms can apply for grants to offset the cost, the hon. Member for Taunton was right that they...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 17 (15 May 2008)

Kitty Ussher: I shall briefly explain—because we have not yet done so—exactly what clause 17 does. Simply, it legislates for the revalorisation of the climate change levy rates announced in the Budget 2008. As stated in the Red Book at the time, that maintains the environmental effect of the tax after taking account of inflation. I am delighted to be able to answer the hon. Gentleman’s...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 17 (15 May 2008)

Kitty Ussher: ...be contrary to European Union directive 2003/96, which requires a tax on energy supply rather than emissions. The main problem that I urge Committee members to consider stems from the fact that our climate change levy has been incredibly successful as devised. An independent analysis by Cambridge Econometrics, published at the time of the 2005 Budget, estimated that it had delivered...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 17 (15 May 2008)

Kitty Ussher: .... The hon. Gentleman was right to discuss the work by Cambridge Econometrics. I will go back and read the report again, but what Cambridge Econometrics said to us was that, in its analysis, the climate change levy would save 2.8 million tonnes per annum and reduce energy demand in the business and commercial sector by 22 per cent. by 2010. It is an independent, well-respected consultancy,...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 16 (15 May 2008)

Kitty Ussher: ...it was in about 1980 that I left the Tring vicinity. I am not sure that the recycling depot that he mentioned was in operation then, but I am deeply perturbed to find that the situation may change. Turning to the matter in hand, the clause increases the standard rate of landfill tax, which applies to active waste disposed to landfill, by £8 per tonne to £40 per tonne next year,...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Energy Efficiency (5 Jun 2006)

Kitty Ussher: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the contribution that energy efficiency could make to meeting the Government's climate change targets.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Energy Efficiency (2 Jun 2006)

Kitty Ussher: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the contribution that energy efficiency could make to meeting the Government's climate change targets.