Results 1-20 of 20 for climate change speaker:Justine Greening

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (20 Jul 2009)

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many complaints were (a) received and (b) upheld about the 10 Warm Front contractors who received the most work under the scheme (i) in the UK and (ii) in Wandsworth in (A) 2006, (B) 2007, (C) 2008 and (D) 2009.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Public Expenditure (16 Jul 2009)

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what assessment he has made of the likely effect of the (a) £100 million in capital funding brought forward to 2009-10 and (b) £50 million of capital spending brought forward from 2010-11 to 2008-09 on the number of homes in which energy efficient and heating measures will be installed under the Warm Front programme; and...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (15 Jul 2009)

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what procedures are in place to ensure that work is carried out by Warm Front contractors before they are paid for it.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (15 Jul 2009)

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many households had work undertaken for them by Warm Front contractors (a) in the UK and (b) in Wandsworth in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007, (iii) 2008 and (iv) 2009.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Warm Front Scheme (15 Jul 2009)

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his estimate is of the average waiting time for insulation work to be carried out under the Warm Front scheme in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Power Failures (20 Apr 2009)

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many (a) planned and (b) unplanned power cuts there have been by (i) region and (ii) London borough in each of the last five years.

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day]: Heathrow (Third Runway) (28 Jan 2009) has video

Justine Greening: I am sorry, but I will not give way because of the time. The Secretary of State talked about concessions and having only 125,000 extra flights by 2020. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change is in his place, and I tell him that that is not a concession. It was always the plan, as he will see if he looks at page 136 of the consultation document. It is no concession, and it is...

Point of Order: Public Accounts (23 Oct 2008) has video

Justine Greening: ...in industry. The excellent Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee—I shall pay further, more detailed tribute to him shortly—rightly opened the debate by pointing to the considerable changes that have occurred since we debated the previous PAC reports back in May. If we had thought back in May that we would see the current bank rescue plan, hear the word "nationalisation"...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 143 (12 Jun 2008)

Justine Greening: Again, I want to ask some brief questions of the Minister regarding the fact that coal mine methane is no longer being considered renewable under the climate change levy. I understand that the Government are saying that that is because the EU state aid exemption expires in October and the incentive has not had much effect. I want to press the Minister on why the Government feel that that has...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 143 (12 Jun 2008)

Justine Greening: Does the Minister have any assessment of the impact on climate change levy receipts as a result of ending the exemption?

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 140 (12 Jun 2008)

Justine Greening: That gives me the details that I was interested in. However, it seems unfair that people who have in the past two years caught on to the need to take steps against climate change and have bought a Euro 4 van, will have to pay the standard rate, whereas those who had already done that will still be benefiting from their behaviour, paying the reduced rate. I understand the limits on the...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 68 (3 Jun 2008)

Justine Greening: ...by the Government often spread over 70 years. There is a world of difference between 8.5 megatonnes being achieved cumulatively over that time frame and it being achieved by 2020. Given that the Climate Change Bill is before the House, I want to understand how measures such as this clause will form part of the overall effort to reduce emissions over the near-term years, which we all...

Deferred Divisions: Vehicle Excise Duty (14 May 2008) has video

Justine Greening: ...—we heard about one constituent earlier—that they feel this is a disgraceful way to treat the British public. It is claimed, of course, that this tax will help save the environment. The VED changes can be found in the "Protecting the environment" part of the Red Book. However, we now know that Treasury officials told the Government that they could expect the policy to reduce...

Orders of the Day: Clause 90 — Zero-carbon homes (29 Apr 2008)

Justine Greening: ...Paper. The Government and the Chancellor claim to be concerned about the environment. In this year's Budget statement, the Chancellor said: "our greatest obligation to the future must be to tackle climate change."—[ Official Report, 12 March 2008; Vol. 473, c. 295.] The Government claim that they want a meaningful reduction in the UK's carbon emissions and that their zero-carbon...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (17 Mar 2008)

Justine Greening: ...chancellor promised to put sustainability at the heart of today's announcement, but he has merely tinkered in the margins." John Sauven of Greenpeace talked about the Chancellor "dropping the ball on climate change" and went on to say: "his measures have failed to match the scale of the challenge we face." The Institute of Chartered Accountants said that the Budget "does nothing to address...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (17 Mar 2008)

Justine Greening: ...range of green taxes that we would like to see. We set out the increase in the banding on vehicle excise duty and we talked about the feed-in tariff; we raised the issue of the carbon levy and changing from the climate change levy. We have set out a whole range of policies. Moreover, we have talked about how we would handle them. Unlike the Government, we see green taxes not as stealth...

Business of the House (10 Jan 2008) has video

Justine Greening: ...Food and Rural Affairs was never involved in the environmental modelling work on the Heathrow expansion. The proposal will affect millions of people and it concerns the environment, the economy and climate change. It is also controversial, so if that is not topical enough for a topical debate, what is?

Orders of the Day: New Clause 1 — Contents of directors' report: business review (No. 2) (18 Oct 2006)

Justine Greening: ...responsibility reporting. We do not want to force them down routes that they may not find valuable. Surely providing some flexibility is a better approach, especially given that we may debate a climate change Bill shortly, than tying the review down so tightly to lists of requirements for inclusion that there is no flexibility to adapt as the agenda changes and grows. Conservative Members...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 1 — Contents of directors' report: business review (No. 2) (18 Oct 2006)

Justine Greening: ...Judy politics for the sake of it. We are an Opposition that have for some time now said that, when we are happy with legislation, we will not oppose it just for the sake of it. We saw no reason to change that with the business review, because we support increasing and enhancing the corporate social responsibility framework in this country. We are well aware that the business review started...

Young People and Democracy (23 Mar 2006)

Justine Greening: ...I was interested in politics, I would have said no. If they had asked me whether I was interested in current affairs, I would have said yes absolutely. The challenge is to link the two together. Changing things around people can be done by a political route. The two are symbiotically related and do not have to be separate. If those are the symptoms, we must move on and talk about why they...