Results 1-18 of 18 for climate change speaker:David Howarth

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: E.ON: Corporate Hospitality (21 Jul 2009)

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many of his Department's employees accepted corporate hospitality from E.ON in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008; how many have done so in 2009 to date; and what hospitality was received in each case.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Energy (8 Jun 2009)

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what representations his Department and its predecessor have received from (a) the Association of Electricity Producers and (b) Drax Power Limited since 2005.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Regional Electricity Companies (8 Jun 2009)

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what representations he has received from (a) the Association of Electricity Producers and (b) Drax Power Limited on the effects of the implementation of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Kingsnorth Climate Camp (11 Feb 2009)

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on what dates staff transferred from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to his Department have since their transfer communicated with (a) E.ON and (b) Kent Police regarding the Kingsnorth Climate Camp.

Public Bill Committee: Political Parties and Elections Bill (4 Nov 2008)

David Howarth: ...One point of view is that at that point a different consensus would break out; a consensus backed by where the public is rather than where the parties are. Secondly, you talked about the political climate. Is it not possible to say now that the political climate has changed again? We have had a new round of scandals, of possible donation scandals and so on. We have also seen the collapse...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

David Howarth: ...) mentioned several of her constituents; perhaps I should start by mentioning one of mine. Sir David King is the former chief scientific adviser who got into a lot of trouble for describing climate change as the most dangerous challenge facing the world. He said that it was more dangerous than terrorism. This week, above all weeks, it is worth repeating that remark, and never mind the...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change Bill [Lords] (9 Jun 2008) has video

David Howarth: ...the atmosphere for another century. Let me refer to another part of the Bill that has not been referred to much, although the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) mentioned it in part. There has been a change in the reporting provisions in the Bill, so the question of annual targets is rather different from what it was when we first discussed it. There is a five-year...

Orders of the Day: Fixed Term Parliaments Bill (16 May 2008) has video

David Howarth: ...be a good thing in some circumstances, but it is not good if it prevents the Government from working on particular projects. I have one specific example with which I was involved last summer. The Climate Change Bill got through a Joint Committee in July and was supposed to appear well before the new Session of Parliament. It was supposed to be debated extensively in this House early in the...

Orders of the Day: Local Government and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (8 Nov 2007) has video

David Howarth: I should like to return to the subject raised by the hon. Member for Bedford (Patrick Hall). I served on the Joint Committee on the draft Climate Change Bill and also on the Environmental Audit Committee, and I am glad to see a number of my colleague survivors of those Committees here today. There is no doubt that climate change is the greatest new political issue to have arisen in our...

Orders of the Day: Local Government and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (8 Nov 2007) has video

David Howarth: ...Committees could not understand that. The Government seem to have been persuaded to include that by the CBI on the grounds that we do not want to go too far, but we cannot go too far in tackling climate change. The Government's latest response is that if we go above 32 per cent., that can be banked for the next period, but that lets the pressure off the next period and we should not do...

Business of the House (28 Jun 2007)

David Howarth: May we have an urgent debate on the views of the new Prime Minister on the environment? It was noticeable that yesterday in his speech in Downing street he mentioned neither climate change or the environment, and that he gave the issue short shrift in his speech accepting the leadership of the Labour party—and as the Treasury was hardly a powerhouse of environmentalism under his care,...

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] — UK Atomic Energy Authority (9 May 2007)

David Howarth: ...future energy system of this country. Unlike my hon. Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso), I do not think that nuclear power is necessary in the fight against climate change. The main problem is that the nuclear industry cannot be a normal industry. There never will be a purely private nuclear industry. Turning to the UKAEA in general, I should like to...

Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day]: Climate Change (8 May 2007)

David Howarth: I thank the Minister for giving way again. Would it not be better if the Government took a unilateral lead on this issue? Otherwise, no progress will be made. This morning, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research told the Environmental Audit Committee that it has been able to calculate perfectly reasonable estimates of the British share of international aviation and shipping emissions...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (26 Mar 2007)

David Howarth: ...to disappoint the Secretary of State, but one difficulty with "tallying up" the environmental effect of the Budget is the precise result that the Government intend with their alterations to the climate change levy. The Red Book appears to give no figure for carbon saving from the package. Are the measures in the Budget designed merely to hold the savings level, or are they intended to make...

Orders of the Day: Energy Supply (30 Oct 2006)

David Howarth: ...have said, this is an auspicious day to be discussing energy supply, since it is the day on which the Stern review was published, and it has been announced that the Government are to introduce a climate change Bill. Of course, the debate on that Bill will be on its content, not on its mere existence. It is important that we realise what radical changes need to be made in energy policy in...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 81 — Enforcement of directors' liabilities by shareholder action (18 Oct 2006)

David Howarth: ...is now a very big business. The services offered by Government relations companies are extensive. A particular company—I have checked its website—gives these examples of its work: changing Government policy on payouts to Railtrack shareholders, changing telecommunications policy, defending the interests of companies involved in the private finance initiative, winning political...

Management of Energy in Buildings Bill (11 Nov 2005)

David Howarth: I wish the Bill every success, as I did the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill. Does the hon. Gentleman accept that clause 4 of the Bill is especially important, because if dynamic demand technologies work, they will encourage the use of other renewable technologies throughout the grid system? In addition, they could save the grid up to £80 million a year by reducing response...

Written Answers — Transport: Carbon Dioxide Emissions (17 Oct 2005)

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what methods his Department uses to assess the global environmental impact, including possible effects on meeting climate change targets, of proposals for new transport infrastructure.