Results 1-20 of 21 for climate change speaker:Jeremy Browne

Bill Presented: Clause 14 — Rates from April 2010 (13 May 2009) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...tradition, want. Are the Government trying to stimulate sales through the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, but trying to restrict them through the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Treasury? If so, people are being sent conflicting signals. We are pleased that the measure is not retrospective. It seems to be far less controversial than last year's...

Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill: Use of the Chamber (United Kingdom Youth Parliament) (16 Mar 2009)

Jeremy Browne: ...that if the Government had allocated the amount of time that we are spending this evening in discussing this issue to debating issues such as our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, global terrorism, climate change and youth unemployment, more young people would have been engaged than by our talking about this narrow issue.?

Financial Crisis: Financial Management (20 Jan 2009) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...in bringing nation states together to co-ordinate our response to the current economic crisis effectively. We emphatically think that the EU has a role to play in trying to mitigate the effects of climate change. Most people would accept that the EU and public opinion across Europe are further ahead in the debate than anywhere else in the world—certainly further ahead than in north...

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Absenteeism (26 Nov 2008)

Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the rate of staff (a) absence and (b) sickness absence in (i) his Department and (ii) each of its non-departmental public bodies has been since its inception; what the target rates set for his Department are in each case; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Advertising (26 Nov 2008)

Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much (a) his Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies have spent on (i) publicity and (ii) advertising since its inception; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Civil Servants (26 Nov 2008)

Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many civil servants have been employed by each of his Department's non-departmental bodies since his Department's inception; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Consultants (26 Nov 2008)

Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much (a) his Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies has spent on external consultancy since its inception; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Early Retirement (26 Nov 2008)

Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many employees in his Department have taken early retirement since its inception; and at what total cost.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental NDPBs (19 Nov 2008)

Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the remit is of each non-departmental public body sponsored by his Department; and what budget each has been set for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental NDPBs (5 Nov 2008)

Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what funding has been agreed with each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies for the period 2008-2011.

Orders of the Day: New Clause 3 — Vehicle excise duty: variation of graduated rates for light passenger vehicles (2 Jul 2008) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...that the Conservatives have sought to occupy, which is to talk green but always vote against the green option. I want to make it absolutely clear that the Liberal Democrats are committed to changing behaviour and mitigating the effects of climate change by introducing environmental taxes that form a greater component of Britain's overall tax take. But we will not increase taxes overall; we...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 3 — Vehicle excise duty: variation of graduated rates for light passenger vehicles (2 Jul 2008) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...speaking for longer than I wished to because I have been so generous in taking interventions—I want to discuss amendment No. 7 and new clauses 3 and 7, tabled by the Conservatives. My party takes climate change extremely seriously and always has, and we wish to achieve reductions in emissions from transport. Environmental taxation clearly has a vital role to play because transport...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 19 (15 May 2008)

Jeremy Browne: ...more activities—or, in some cases, pricing people out of activities that they may need to undertake—is a blunt instrument. It is a necessary instrument for dealing with the problem of climate change, but it is quite limited. The theory of carbon trading is worth developing further. I have a few brief questions for the Minister to answer. The first follows on from previous...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 17 (15 May 2008)

Jeremy Browne: ...insert— ‘(3) In sub-paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 6 to FA 2000 after “on”, insert “the level of carbon dioxide emissions emitted by”.’. My party supports the climate change levy in the absence of a better alternative, but the amendment proposes the introduction of something that we regard as a superior alternative—a carbon tax. I shall explain...

Orders of the Day: Clause 15 — Rates of vehicle excise duty (29 Apr 2008) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...that the Conservative party's true motive for proposing the review is to make a broader case that the Government's policy on vehicle excise duty differentials has been ineffective in dealing with climate change. Therefore, the Conservatives will argue that we ought to conclude that the policy is ineffective and not one to which they are sympathetic, whereas I draw a different conclusion:...

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

Jeremy Browne: ...need to turn our attention to how we improve such matters. I am not the only person who takes that view. In the Select Committee on Communities and Local Government report "Existing Housing and Climate Change", the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey), the Labour Chairman, called for a "much clearer focus on what must be done to bring existing housing up to required...

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (21 Apr 2008) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...on whether the Budget had a vision or a sense of purpose, and whether it told us what the Labour party seeks to achieve and what drives the Government. In this debate, we have been discussing a change that was made in the Budget of 2007. The 2008 Budget has escaped without being given much attention at all because it was the most puny, unambitious Budget in living memory. During the...

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (21 Apr 2008) has video

Jeremy Browne: ...in my opening remarks that the Government had done nothing at all; I said rather that the scale of their ambition was far too puny, timid and lacking in ambition. That is very much true of the Climate Change Bill; in fact, I could not have come up with a better example if I had sat in my office and given considerable thought to the matter. That Bill is a proposal put forward by a...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (18 Mar 2008)

Jeremy Browne: ...2p in the pound and to double, rather than abolish, the 10p rate. That will have a profound effect on many of our constituents when it comes into effect next month. It is overwhelmingly the biggest change that people will experience. The Prime Minister, in his characteristically uncollegiate way, took the central feature of this year's Budget and announced it as the central feature of his...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (18 Mar 2008)

Jeremy Browne: ...the council tax should be replaced by a fairer system. We could have had a Budget that painted a big picture of a fairer, greener, better Britain—a Budget that really went for the issue of climate change and global warming, took it seriously and understood the urgency of the system. The Budget could have replaced the council tax with a fairer system for our constituents, a system...