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Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy: Electricity Generation (9 Jul 2009)

Philip Dunne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the proportion of electricity generated from (a) solar and (b) other renewable sources in the latest period for which figures are available.

Energy Generation (Food Waste) (4 Mar 2009) has video

Philip Dunne: ...to raise an issue of increasing importance for this country, which touches on many aspects of public policy. Energy from food waste raises issues of energy security, waste management policy, climate change, land use, food security and the environment in which we all live. The House will be relieved to learn that I do not intend to cover all those topics in detail this evening, as there is...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Electricity Generation (22 Jan 2009)

Philip Dunne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the effect of the current economic climate on levels of expenditure on new electricity generation plants.

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Schedule 4 (15 May 2007)

Philip Dunne: ...that have been so well put by my hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet. He should think again about its impact and what it will do to the  growing entrepreneurial and innovative investment climate that has been cultivated in part under his Government—let me give credit where it is due. The measure will have a major impact in driving investment offshore and shutting down a...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: (Except clauses 1, 3, 7, 8, 12, 20, 21, 25, 67 and 81 to 84, schedules 1, 18, 22 and 23, and new clauses relating to microgeneration) - Clause 5 (10 May 2007)

Philip Dunne: ...all Governments in this country have taken towards wine and the approach adopted by many of our partner countries in Europe, not least the wine producers. As we move into an era of accelerating climate change—as was evident last month—there is an increasing interest in the production of wine in this country, which needs to be taken seriously. For those hon. Members who are not...

Orders of the Day: Treasury and Work and Pensions (27 Nov 2006)

Philip Dunne: ...liability, presumably for political reasons. In the pensions Bill, there has been no attempt to recognise that the public sector needs to bear its share of the challenges that we will face in dealing with demographic change in coming generations. It is not only Opposition Members who have raised that concern. Many outside commentators have castigated the Government for dropping the ball as...

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

Philip Dunne: ...on that issue, save some lip service paid to local procurement. There is a place for regulation. Other hon. Members, including the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Andrew Stunell), referred to a climate change Bill and I am proud to have signed up to the "big ask", mainly because it will impose on the Government an obligation to report back to this House, and to be seen to introduce measures...

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

Philip Dunne: ...is very disappointing, given all the rhetoric about what the Government are doing to encourage just that. The Minister is due to visit Church Stretton in my constituency next month to address a climate change symposium organised by the Methodists. I should like to invite him to come to see a scheme, funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, that involves the first...