Results 1-20 of 20 for climate change speaker:Sarah McCarthy-Fry

Taxation (Gambling) (5 Nov 2009) has video

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...of the risk of problem gambling is only one of many considerations that must be taken before decisions are taken on tax. In conclusion, it is clear that the gambling industry faces a challenging and changing environment. It must react to the smoking ban and the implementation of the 2005 Act, as well as the wider trends of structural change across the leisure sector, including the...

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change Levy (3 Nov 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Recovered fuel oil is a hydrocarbon oil within the meaning of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979 and as such is outside the scope of the climate change levy. Therefore, the burning of recovered fuel oil in any process, not just industrial manufacturing, will not be subject to the climate change levy.

Written Answers — Treasury: Tax Allowances: Fuel Oil (22 Oct 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Government keep all taxes under review. Any changes to tax policy are announced by the Chancellor as part of his Budget judgment in the normal Budget and pre-Budget report process. Recovered fuel oil used in blast furnaces is not subject to fuel duty as the oil is being used as a chemical reductant rather than as a fuel. Fuels used to generate electricity are exempt from duty to avoid...

Written Answers — Treasury: EU Emissions Trading Scheme (15 Oct 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...market price of carbon is used to forecast auctioning revenues from Phase II of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Longer term forecasts for Phase III are based on the Department for Energy and Climate Change estimates of the traded price of carbon in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme up to 2050, which are set out in "Carbon Valuation in UK Policy Appraisal: A Revised Approach".

Written Answers — Treasury: Climate Change (12 Oct 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Research on matters pertaining to energy and climate change is led by the Department for Energy and Climate Change. Officials in the International Development and Climate Change team work in cooperation with their counterparts at DECC.

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 117 (25 Jun 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: I will broadly introduce the schedule and will then welcome debate. The climate change agreements scheme is a state aid scheme. It was designed to run for 12 years, until 2013. When the UK notified the scheme as state aid in 2001, we made that clear to the European Commission. However, in accordance with the prevailing Community guidelines on state aid for environmental protection, approval...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 117 (25 Jun 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ..., an extension to the state aid approval beyond 2011, it would weaken the incentive for businesses to meet their 2010 targets. The introduction of the recovery mechanism represents a fundamental change to the scheme. The Government are introducing the necessary legislation now to ensure that participating facilities are aware of the new consequence of missing their targets before those...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 117 (25 Jun 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: I confirm that climate change agreements were introduced in 2001. We intended for there to be a 12-year scheme that ran until 2013, but under the guidelines, approval could be given for only 10 years. We will seek state aid approval for the final two years of the scheme because we intended it to go up to 2013. It was announced in the 2007 pre-Budget report that the Government intend to extend...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 116 (25 Jun 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...Federation represents a new sector wishing to join the scheme, but it has been unable to satisfy the Commission that the reduced rate is necessary to its members. The Department of Energy and Climate Change estimates that the plastics sector’s entry to the scheme would provide annual savings of 32,000 tonnes of CO2 against the 2006 baseline. We have therefore looked at alternative...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Climate Change (4 Jun 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...; and joint DCSF/HPA guidance for teachers and other professionals on looking after schoolchildren during heatwaves(2). The Department has not made any estimate of the costs and savings from climate change adaptation measures in schools. However some cost analysis of the possible impacts on buildings was published in a report by the Foundation for the Built Environment published in...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Climate Change (13 Jan 2009)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: In July 2008, the cross-Government Adapting to Climate Change Programme published Adapting to climate change in England—a framework for action which set out the Government's strategy for adaptation and the work-plan for the cross-Government Programme for the next three years. This programme increases Government's capacity to adapt by ensuring a co-ordinated approach across all...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: EU Reform: Climate Change (9 Oct 2007)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of how changes to qualified majority voting in the European reform treaty would affect the ability of the UK and the EU to promote the environment and fight climate change.

Point of Order: Defence in the UK (26 Apr 2007)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...that the replacement of Vanguard will not suffer from legacy problems, but will benefit from the new proposals in the defence industrial strategy. Our defence industry is in a period of tremendous change. In this climate, getting public sector procurement right is difficult. The defence industrial strategy has been a major step forward in redefining the relationship between the MOD and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Iraq (16 Apr 2007)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...1991, he was told: "ministers have decreed that former PoWs will attend a mass press conference and relate their experiences", whether they wanted to or not. He wrote that a few days later "someone changed their mind." I do not need to remind people that the Ministers in 1991 belonged to the so-called honourable Conservative party—I do not recall hearing calls for resignations. Of...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: European Environmental Monitoring Programme (12 Dec 2005)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...a quarter of gross domestic product to the European environmental monitoring programme; and what assessment she has made of the likely impact of such a move on the UK's contribution to addressing climate change. [R]

UK Space Policy (23 Nov 2005)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...important aspect of space, which is the eco-warrior role. The role of the space industry in monitoring, tracking and ultimately helping to reverse—or at the very least better manage—climate change is crucial. A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to be invited to the European Space Research Institute at Frascati in Italy to watch a video link to the launch of the Cryosat...

UK Space Policy (23 Nov 2005)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...and the effort needs to come not just from one Department. I hope that the Minister will pass that message on. The GMES programme is vital for the early warning of environmental disasters and climate change. Returning to my favourite hero, Arthur C. Clarke once said: "The dinosaurs are not around today because they didn't have a space programme". He said that the meteor that released the...

Corporate Social Responsibility (11 Oct 2005)

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: ...responsibility. Corporate responsibility is too important to be left to a voluntary code. There are wide implications to the term stakeholders. We are all, after all, stakeholders in the planet. Climate change threatens us all. Whether or not the recent increased hurricane activity can be directly linked to global warming, it had a devastating effect on the people of New Orleans, and...