Results 1-4 of 4 for climate change speaker:John Howell

Bill Presented — Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill: Child Poverty Bill (20 Jul 2009) has video

John Howell: ...expressed by the Child Poverty Action Group that there is no idea of how the Bill will work in practice. It, too, asks what will have to be dropped from existing strategies in order to deliver the changes. The Bill represents the wrong way of working with local government, and it echoes what we came across in debates on the Equality Bill. In the fifth sitting of the Public Bill Committee,...

Energy and Climate Change: Copenhagen Conference (4 Jun 2009) has video

John Howell: What the Government's priorities are for a global agreement on climate change in Copenhagen in December.

Bill Presented: Local Government Finance (4 Feb 2009) has video

John Howell: ...efficiency savings targets. However, any sense of pride in those achievements was tempered by the frustration of our expectations that we could, after coming to power with a radical agenda, make radical changes for the benefit of local people. Too often, those aims were frustrated by the fact that the Government perceived us as little more than their local executive arm and placed...

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

John Howell: ...rail is an alternative that would take passengers out of the air, and not just make it easier for them to travel when they land. If Members do not think that attitudes and behaviours are already changing as a result of experience of high-speed rail travel, they are wrong. I give my own example: having used high-speed trains in mainland Europe, I now find it inconceivable that I would fly,...