Results 1-20 of 26 for climate change speaker:Michael Gove

Flooding (23 Jul 2007) has video

Michael Gove: ...seven staff members had been let go in the previous 12 months. Many of my constituents who have been flooded out of their homes for the second time in a year will be asking why, at a time of acute climate change, the Environment Agency is laying off experts in flood management and defence.

Nice: Home Information Packs (22 May 2007)

Michael Gove: ...the truth last week? How can Ministers ever again ask to be taken seriously on the environment, when they have comprehensively mismanaged a measure that they argued throughout was vital to fighting climate change? Will the Secretary of State also confirm that today's judgment in the High Court underlines what we have argued all along and what best practice in the European Union...

Points of Order: Housing (16 May 2007)

Michael Gove: ...They will not speed up transactions or make the process of house buying less stressful—quite the opposite. They have not been prepared in a way in which anyone who is serious about combating climate change would consider adequate.

Points of Order: Housing (16 May 2007)

Michael Gove: ...to go through both processes with the hon. Gentleman any time he likes. The Government have failed not only on searches but on the most crucial test of all: seriousness about the environment and climate change. Their record on the environment is patchy at best. Ministers in the Department for Communities and Local Government have recently been proclaiming their green credentials. How...

Points of Order: Housing (16 May 2007)

Michael Gove: The hon. Gentleman insists on giving us a history lesson. Let me remind him that the first significant international agreement on combating climate change was signed by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) when he was Environment Secretary. The first world statesman to sound a warning on global climate change was Baroness Thatcher, at the...

Points of Order: Housing (16 May 2007)

Michael Gove: ...faulty green credentials has been exposed by no less than the Cabinet Office and its Better Regulation Commission, which said that the regulations were "ill considered regulatory responses to the climate change challenge", and that Ministers were "using climate change as a justification for measures which have other motivations." The Government are using energy performance certificates as...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: New Clause 6 (23 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...Betty” or “Celebrity Big Brother”, I was presiding over a flood  forum dealing with issues of flooding that have afflicted many parts of south-east England. But as I said, while climate change can lead to flooding in some parts of the country, it is also contributing directly to the water shortages being faced by Londoners.

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...issue, but as he said in response to interventions made from the Liberal Democrat Benches, there is a tension between instructing  the Mayor, as the Bill does, to implement national policies on climate change and energy and working with him to ensure that his policies are consistent with the strategic direction that the Government have a right to set. Unless the Minister can guarantee...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...;they do not really compete—suggestions on how the Mayor’s powers might be enhanced in relation to water and sewerage and the role that those two factors play in a broader approach to climate and demographic change in London. We shall indeed have an opportunity to discuss the new clauses in greater detail. However, I want to emphasise more broadly the fact that although there...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...in to fuel protesters. Were they not protesting against many other things, including the fuel tax escalator, which was introduced   by a Conservative Government as part of a way of dealing with climate change? Was not that wise measure repealed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer?

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: I beg to move amendment No. 53, in clause 39, page 41, line 12, leave out from beginning to end of line 37 on page 42 and insert— ‘(2) The London climate change mitigation and energy strategy shall be in general conformity with national policies and strategies.’.

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...spirit, as the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington explained. We are broadly in agreement with the principles behind the enhancement and clarification of the Mayor’s role in combating climate change. The Minister made an appropriate reference to the roiling waters of the Thames outside and to the inclement weather that we face today. On my way here this morning, I was listening...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...flying that he wishes to continue to enjoy when out of office have suggested a public concern about the mismatch between the rhetoric of some people in public life who enjoin the seriousness of climate change on us all, and their personal habits, which do not match. I do not want to personalise the debate unnecessarily, but I want to emphasise the important point made by the hon. Member...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...O’Hara. My point about carbon trading is that it has an effect on some of the institutions on which London relies and the taxes and precepts that Londoners pay. Any guidance on how the London climate change mitigation strategy might have an impact on broader negotiations about a European and global carbon trading scheme would be illuminating for the Committee and for Londoners. On...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 39 (18 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...and subsections, and we appreciate the Government’s good intentions in framing them. However, the Conservatives believe that it is important to recognise that when it comes to combating climate change, not only are specific policies appropriate to specific regions but specific policies might be appropriate and could be piloted by individual boroughs. Our amendment would insert into...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 36 (16 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: .... One might expect Conservative Members to be concerned about that—legitimate concerns could be raised—but in the spirit of achieving cross-party consensus on the vital issue of climate change, we recognise that the Government make a decent case for their proposals. However, the Mayor still has a number of levers to pull in encouraging a more effective waste strategy and we do...

Public Bill Committee: Greater London Authority Bill: Clause 36 (16 Jan 2007)

Michael Gove: ...a fascinating debate in which several important issues were raised. The hon. Member for Regent’s Park and Kensington, North made a coherent case, underlining the way in which no one who takes climate change seriously can afford to ignore the impact of waste management. She also outlined, with a mixture of passion and authority, how a single waste authority for London might make a...

Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]: Home Information Packs (19 Jul 2006)

Michael Gove: ...), drew considerable attention to the environmental defects of the Government's house building programme. Indeed, it was only thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker) that the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill has provisions to ensure that microgeneration is one of the factors that planning committees take into consideration when deciding...

Orders of the Day: Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill (12 May 2006)

Michael Gove: My hon. Friend is making it admirably clear that he is sceptical about the scientific consensus on the arguments for an anthropogenic source of climate change. May I put it to him, however, that given that he agrees that the Bill serves admirable energy security and competition ends, it is worthy of his support notwithstanding that scepticism?

Orders of the Day: Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill (12 May 2006)

Michael Gove: ...to be here today. I am sure that we all send condolences and best wishes to his family, too. There is widespread consensus across the House on the specific dangers that we face as a result of climate change. Indeed, as the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood) pointed out, that consensus now includes the Pentagon. It is a remarkably wide consensus that can embrace both Liberal...