Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:Roberta Blackman-Woods

Free School Meals (20 Oct 2009)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...£633 a year. Much of the food is sourced locally, so local businesses and farmers are also benefiting from the programme and, as I said, additional jobs have been created. We are all terribly concerned about climate change, so we should note that food miles are also being cut, with enormous environmental benefits. Lastly, children are learning social skills and how to eat healthily,...

Olympics: Policing and Crime Bill (19 Jan 2009) has video

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...refuse a licence only by arguing that one or more of the licensing objectives under the 2003 Act would be breached. That is possible, but has proved very difficult in practice. Many of us arguing for a change in legislation did so on the basis of getting the law changed so that local people would have a much greater say over whether to have a lap-dancing club in their area. The reforms...

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Reconstructing Afghanistan (10 Jul 2008)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...of hon. Members—with the one exception of the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames). I shall return to that in a moment. The additional funds include £30 million for the new Afghanistan investment climate facility, which aims not to tackle climate change but to assist business development in Afghanistan. There is also further support for the reconstruction trust fund, and...

Orders of the Day: Planning Bill (10 Dec 2007)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...about planning than any other issue. I welcome most of the Bill. Perhaps quite unusually, I want to address my comments to parts 9 and 10. Before doing so, however, I want to comment on the climate change issues. It is obvious that more needs to be done through the planning system to tackle climate change. I am pleased that the Bill puts a duty on councils in preparing their local plans to...

Written Answers — International Development: Climate Change (5 Dec 2007)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to help the world's poorest countries address the effects of climate change.

Royal Assent: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (27 Mar 2007)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ..."to ensuring that the planning system delivers the housing and economic development the UK needs in a way which is sustainable and consistent with the Government's wider objectives including on climate change". That is much to be welcomed, as is the support for the Eddington and Barker reports. We obviously need more transport and investment in buses. In areas such as mine, which is a...

Orders of the Day: Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (22 Jan 2007)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...to bring the community and voluntary sectors on board. However, we may need to look at the list of things covered by LAAs, as they must be able to tackle some of the cross-cutting issues, such as climate change, local environmental matters and social inclusion, which it has been difficult for them to consider effectively. I also welcome the changes to best value and the rationalisation of...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ..., and through ticketing is clearly essential. Let us be clear—the bus challenge is huge. Merely reversing short-term decline in bus services is not enough if we are going to meet our climate change challenge. We should not only make bus services work for those who need and rely on them—that is important—but make them work and appeal to people who do not need to use them...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill (12 May 2006)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ..., North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) for successfully steering the Bill through the parliamentary process thus far. I extend my sympathy to him and to his family at this time. Reacting powerfully to climate change is essential if we are to meet the challenge of cutting global greenhouse gas emissions. It is necessary to expand the availability and development and, one would hope, ultimately...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill (12 May 2006)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...the best placed bodies to respond to local demand andto promote schemes locally so that individuals can become involved directly. There is a great deal in the Bill to be welcomed if we are to take climate change seriously, and I hope that the House will support it today.

United Nations Reform (18 Apr 2006)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...review. A third tranche concerned policy co-ordination. The wide-ranging reform package is intended to make the organisation more fit for purpose for 21st century needs. The role of the UN is a changing one, and has been changing especially in recent years. Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General, has summarised the changes thus: "In the 16 years since the cold war ended, the Organization has...

United Nations Reform (18 Apr 2006)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...to see so much emphasis being placed on delivering on the millennium development goals. The hon. Member for South-West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous), who was with the delegation, pushed strongly on climate change, and I am sure that he will want to say something about that. An important challenge will be the appointment of the new Secretary-General. The dilemmas facing the UN in that...

United Nations Reform (18 Apr 2006)

Roberta Blackman-Woods: ...that if the reform progress were to fail and the UN failed with it, it would be not only a missed opportunity but a catastrophe for humankind's ability to tackle global issues and concerns such as climate change. Time and again, we heard that if the UN failed it would have to be reinvented. However, it seemed that the precious nature and fragility of the institution was not always fully...