Results 1-13 of 13 for climate change speaker:David Gauke

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry: New Clause 3 — Office of Tax Simplification (7 Jul 2009)

David Gauke: ...to be so proactive in identifying areas of the UK tax system that appear to be in breach of EU law. There is a long list of cases on which the Government have fought long and hard before making the changes, yet on the issue before us they seem to have rushed rather quickly from identifying it to conceding the point that it is in breach of European law. The Government's wording is that it...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 93 (23 Jun 2009)

David Gauke: ...I am not at all attracted to it because of naming and shaming incorrectly or the consequences and the balance with taxpayer confidentiality.” It would be helpful to know why the Government changed their mind. Why was there no consultation before this proposal was announced in a Budget notice? This debate is similar to the one we had this morning on the new signing off requirements for...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 3 (19 May 2009)

David Gauke: ...areas has also declined, but this measure needs to be seen as part of a wider package. Pensioners, for example, are in a more difficult position than they were a couple of years ago due to the changing economic climate. We think that the Government should pursue that matter, and to find savings in public spending now in order to provide support to pensioners would be a sensible policy.

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

David Gauke: ...his excitement about the Budget's green proposals, although I think most of them were based on pre-publicity rather than what is actually deliverable. Even the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change said relatively little about the green proposals, most of which were, like the electric car proposal and as I said, more about gaining publicity beforehand than any kind of delivery....

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

David Gauke: ...have tried to highlight one issue above all others: the 50p rate. That has the singular achievement of being cynical in at least four respects. First, it is a breach of a manifesto pledge. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was very keen for the shadow Chancellor to intervene on him, and I am perfectly prepared to let the Secretary of State intervene on me to say whether...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 18 (15 May 2008)

David Gauke: ...aggregates tax, which are part of clause 18. The first is on the issue of neutrality and what the funds raised by the aggregates tax will be used for, which continues from where we left off on the climate change levy and the landfill tax. The clause results in a small increase in the aggregates tax per tonne from £1.95 to £2, which we could say was broadly inflationary. Last...

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

David Gauke: ...with the objective outlined by the hon. Member for Taunton, but whether that is because of the brilliance of his speech or otherwise I leave others to decide. However, we share the view that the climate change levy is an imperfect tax. My right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) once said, in a typically erudite allusion, that it reminded him of what history masters used...

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

David Gauke: ...No. 68, in clause 17, page 8, line 40, at end insert— ‘(3) The Treasury shall publish, not later than the date of the Budget 2009, an estimate, audited by the Independent Committee on Climate Change (as established by the Climate Change Act 2008), of the carbon emissions savings resulting from the changes to climate change levy contained in this section’. There is no need...

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

David Gauke: I have one quick question. Should the climate change levy be seen as revenue neutral? Should money raised by the climate change levy be used to reduce taxes in other areas, or for items of expenditure of a related nature? I believe that when the levy was introduced it was supposed to be revenue neutral. At the time, employers were compensated for the levy with a reduction in national...

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (23 Apr 2007)

David Gauke: The hon. Gentleman is leading me in the direction of a wider discussion of PFI, and he makes his point well. My intention, however, was to raise a specific point in the context of the changes to corporation tax allowances announced in the Budget. The issue of small businesses is more controversial, and there is an incoherence in the Government's approach to distinguishing between incorporated...

Written Answers — Treasury: Economics of Climate Change Review (19 Feb 2007)

David Gauke: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether Sir Nicholas Stern is continuing to work for his Department on climate change; and whether he plans to commission Sir Nicholas to undertake further such work.

Written Answers — Treasury: Members: Correspondence (19 Feb 2007)

David Gauke: ...the hon. Member for Morley and Rothwell (Colin Challen) since 1 October 2006 in relation to that hon. Member's involvement with the work being undertaken by Sir Nicholas Stern for his Department on climate change.

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change (7 Feb 2007)

David Gauke: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the hon. Member for Morley and Rothwell has been appointed to a Government climate change taskforce.