Results 1-3 of 3 for climate change speaker:the Earl of Northesk
- Public Services (18 Apr 2002)
The Earl of Northesk: ...today is so timely and so valuable. It acknowledges not only that the cycle of decline in public service delivery needs to be addressed urgently but also that its context, the social and political climate in which it finds itself, has changed out of all recognition in recent times. It is this upon which I wish to focus in my remarks. A measure of this is to be found in an interesting, even...
- Anglo-American Relations (2 May 2001)
The Earl of Northesk: ...move beyond the constraints of the 30-year-old ABM ... Treaty". It is perhaps also worth making the point that even the Prime Minister accepts that the character of the threat to global security has changed. As he observed in February, "There are a number of states now--some of them not very stable--that have got a nuclear capability ... It is one of the most difficult problems that the...
- Climate Change Levy (17 May 2000)
The Earl of Northesk: My Lords, will the Minister stand by his statement made two days ago in response to a Question that the climate change levy will be neutral in its effect on industry? Does that sanguine view extend to the prospect of energy-intensive industries relocating elsewhere in Europe to escape the strictures of the tax, thereby possibly creating the effect of exporting jobs and importing pollution?
