Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 4 June 2009.
Martin Linton
Labour, Battersea
10:30,
4 June 2009
I congratulate the Secretary of State and his partner on this new addition to world population.
Has my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary read Kofi Annan's report for the Global Humanitarian Forum, showing that climate change is now responsible for 300,000 deaths a year—98 per cent. of them in developing countries? Has she also seen the forecast that if emissions are not brought under control, climate change will create 75 million refugees by 2034?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
