Results 1-10 of 10 for climate change speaker:Stewart Hosie

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Departmental Recycling (12 Oct 2009)

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what proportion of his Department's waste was recycled in the latest period for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Scotland (12 Oct 2009)

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department plans to make a submission to the Scottish Executive's National Conversation consultation on Scotland's constitutional future.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation — Amendment of the law (22 Apr 2009)

Stewart Hosie: ...Minister will know, we have heard much of this before. In the 2005 Red Book, the then Chancellor, now the Prime Minister, said that the Government must examine "how it might support the development of CCS in The Climate Change Programme Review". In his pre-Budget speech in the same year, he said: "Carbon capture and storage protect the environment from carbon emissions by containing them...

Orders of the Day: Banking Bill (14 Oct 2008) has video

Stewart Hosie: ...is not comfortable with the full, all-deposit guarantee. I understand his point when it is applied to normal circumstances, and I would agree with him in normal circumstances. However, the economic climate is very unusual at the moment. Obviously, we welcome the increase in the deposit guarantee to £50,000, although we would have liked it to have gone much further. With the increase...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 13 (15 May 2008)

Stewart Hosie: I shall answer some of those points at the end. However, on the latter point, I have no problem at all with managed price rises to tackle climate change. I have said that before. It is not the managed increases to tackle a particular problem that are of concern, but price spiking, which is so serious and damaging, must be addressed, as must the excessive increases that happen quickly.

Orders of the Day: Finance Bill (23 Apr 2007)

Stewart Hosie: ...of that is off balance sheet? How much of it should actually be on balance sheet? What is the real level of indebtedness? Clause 1 sets out the income tax rates for the forthcoming year, which are unchanged on last year, although one would have been hard pressed to identify that fact from the comments of the Chief Secretary or the Budget speech itself, in which the Chancellor laid out his...

Amendment of the Law (21 Mar 2007)

Stewart Hosie: ...play of carbon capture and storage, but I fear that we have heard all that before. In the 2005 Red Book, he said: "The Government is therefore examining how it might support the development of CCS in the Climate Change Programme Review, including the potential for new economic incentives." In his pre-Budget speech in the same year, he said: "Carbon capture and storage protect the...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (24 Apr 2006)

Stewart Hosie: ...why the Paymaster General is being so defensive. I may have inferred something slightly different from what she meant. According to the standard English that I was taught at school, however, a change in the blended oil regime means a change in North sea taxation. I suspect that we shall have to agree to differ. This Finance Bill follows the Chancellor's 10th Budget, and like others it has...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (28 Mar 2006)

Stewart Hosie: The Minister says that the Government are serious about reducing carbon emissions and tackling global warming and climate change. Will he give a commitment to the House today to look again at the imbalance in connection charges between the north of Scotland and the south of England—the south of England being subsidised and the north of Scotland being charged about £24 per kilowatt...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (27 Mar 2006)

Stewart Hosie: ...some of the 750 gigatonnes of capacity in wells in the North sea. However, if the Government were serious about encouraging the use of more renewables in the fight against global warming and climate change, the Budget would have been the opportunity to address an imbalance in connection charges, which are the single biggest financial obstacle to efficient, large-scale, offshore wind...