Results 1-14 of 14 for climate change speaker:Lynne Featherstone

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Conditions of Employment (12 Oct 2009)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what percentage of employees in his Department (a) are on a flexible working contract, (b) are on a job share employment contract and (c) work from home for more than four hours a week.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Biofuels (23 Feb 2009)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions resulting from producing electricity from used cooking oil as compared to (a) fossil fuels and (b) other biofuels.

Topical Debate: International Development (15 Nov 2007)

Lynne Featherstone: I want to correct the hon. Gentleman. I mentioned three of the MDGs specifically: those on gender equality, climate change and poverty.

Topical Debate: International Development (15 Nov 2007) has video

Lynne Featherstone: ...We can do little about some of the natural disasters, such as tsunamis and earthquakes, that befall the world, but we can do something about what I term the three Cs—corruption, conflict and climate change—if there is the political will and, most importantly, joined-up thinking between the Departments. Those are three areas in which the means to bring about change lie close to...

Topical Debate: International Development (15 Nov 2007) has video

Lynne Featherstone: ...on heavily indebted poor countries. In the interim, because binding international agreements cannot be created overnight, I would love the Government to start looking at how our national laws can be changed to bar vulture funds from using Britain as a tool to milk heavily indebted poor countries. We need to draw a legal line in the sand between legitimate secondary debt and what is...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (13 Nov 2007)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much was spent on tackling climate change by his Department in 2006; and if he will provide a breakdown of this spending by main category of expenditure.

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Global Poverty (24 Jul 2007)

Lynne Featherstone: ...today's motion does not make that leap. I want to address three key issues that are pre-eminent in the fight against global poverty: the nature of sustainable development, the tackling of corruption and climate change. If we do not make the tackling of those our priority, we shall fail in perpetuity to lift poor and vulnerable countries out of dependence, poverty and misery. As has been...

Written Answers — International Development: Group of Eight (4 Jun 2007)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether the forthcoming G8 meeting will discuss Africa and Climate Change; and if he will make a statement.

[Mr. Greg Pope in the Chair] — Terrorism (Detention and Human Rights) (7 Dec 2006)

Lynne Featherstone: ...or injured, obviously, and gross violations of the fundamental values of civilised democratic societies. We live in a world where terrorist attacks are a reality and we must adapt to the current climate. Some of the new terrorism powers, such as the offence of acts preparatory to terrorism, are therefore entirely justified, but others, such as control orders and the extension of the power...

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Climate Change (12 Oct 2006)

Lynne Featherstone: ...of Friends of the Earth in relation to the "big ask", and I am sure that other hon. Members will have received a similar number. I want to add the voice of Hornsey and Wood Green to the call for a climate change Bill. If one does not ask, one does not get—so I am asking. People around the country want to take responsibility in these matters. As we have heard today, that sense of...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (20 Apr 2006)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the climate change review.

Public Bill Committee: Police and Justice Bill: Clause 21 - Appointment of Chief Inspector (28 Mar 2006)

Lynne Featherstone: ...telling us how much of that is included in the proposals. For me, the most telling comments on what is about to happen are those of Anne Owers, the chief inspector of prisons. She calls the current climate an “uncertain and uncharted landscape” and, in the context of a growing prison population, she argues that the consistency and human rights focus offered by a specialist...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (2 Feb 2006)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on progress towards meeting climate change targets.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Climate Change (15 Nov 2005)

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will support legally binding targets to tackle climate change.