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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 12 October 2006, in the House of Commons, led by David Miliband. The answering member was Peter Ainsworth.

Climate Change

Debate on a motion for the adjournment on climate change.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
450 c485-554 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Paddy Tipping | 450 c523-5 (Link to this contribution) I watched with interest the Liberal party conference and the proposals that came out of it. My simpl...
Paddy Tipping | 450 c522 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Hurd) because he makes two points—...
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Chris Huhne | 450 c522 (Link to this contribution) If I understood the hon. Gentleman correctly, he mentioned that there had been a rise in fuel and ca...
Colin Challen | 450 c516 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. The simple answer is that we are afraid of being booted out and...
Martin Horwood | 450 c516 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the expertise and leadership that he has shown on the matter...
David Drew | 450 c516 (Link to this contribution) Given that my hon. Friend is the undoubted expert on climate change in this place, apart from Front ...
Chris Huhne | 450 c521 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the shadow Chancellor’s formulation on green taxes allows f...
Colin Challen | 450 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) It is one of the sad realities of the world that, when the Doha development round collapsed and push...
Nick Hurd | 450 c518-21 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate and my contribution will focus on three aspects of this extremely broad and co...
Chris Huhne | 450 c512-3 (Link to this contribution) The proposal that we have advanced is to change the air passenger duty. When the Conservative Govern...
Chris Huhne | 450 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) It certainly does not. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. Perhaps Ministers wil...
Colin Challen | 450 c514-6 (Link to this contribution) I hope that today we will see the end of a long retreat from Rio. That sounds a bit like a Bob Hope ...
Chris Huhne | 450 c511 (Link to this contribution) I can assure the hon. Lady that it is not peculiar economics at all. The reality is that often an on...
Lord Whitehead | 450 c511 (Link to this contribution) Does not the hon. Gentleman accept that cap and trade taxes are used not only in Europe but, in othe...
Chris Huhne | 450 c511 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree that cap and trade schemes are superior to straightforward taxation. They provide a...
Nick Hurd | 450 c512 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne) spoke about the evidence supporting the purpose and effe...
Chris Huhne | 450 c512 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that at the margin one can calculate elasticities on the basis of performan...
James Duddridge | 450 c512 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman’s elasticity will enable him to express an answer in pounds and pence, wh...
Chris Huhne | 450 c533 (Link to this contribution) I merely point out that I also talked about the west coast main line, the Thames barrier and what we...
Philip Dunne | 450 c543-4 (Link to this contribution) When I became an MP, I approached this issue in relation to a concern about peak oil, our reliance o...
Lord Deben | 450 c541 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my disappointment that in the plans for the Thames Gateway and elsewhe...
Lord Stunell | 450 c542-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has a distinguished record, which I am happy to acknowledge, and he is abso...
Nia Griffith | 450 c538-40 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on giving us such an excellent exposé and clearly making the c...
Lord Stunell | 450 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to be able to contribute to this debate, and it has been extremely interesting to lis...
Rob Marris | 450 c534-7 (Link to this contribution) I profoundly disagree with the hon. Gentleman. We must do both. Climate change has already started. ...
Jeremy Hunt | 450 c537-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris), because I want to...
Rob Marris | 450 c533 (Link to this contribution) I thought that I had adverted to the fact that the hon. Gentleman mentioned flood defences. He is ri...
Lord Barker of Battle | 450 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to delay the hon. Gentleman, but he knows that the greatest champion of adaptation and...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c533 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, as I know that time is short. If he looks back o...
Rob Marris | 450 c533 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect, what we all need to do is deal with the effects of climate change, as wel...
Emily Thornberry | 450 c528-9 (Link to this contribution) As a Government, the most important thing that we have to take on board is that people know that the...
Jeremy Hunt | 450 c529 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady worried that those same Labour values that are leading to hospitals being closed wi...
Emily Thornberry | 450 c529 (Link to this contribution) The fact that the majority of people have their health conditions dealt with in the community is imp...
Jo Swinson | 450 c529-32 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that most hon. Members have, like me, received dozens of letters, e-mails, surgery visits ...
Speaker | 450 c525 (Link to this contribution) Order. Many Members still want to make a contribution to this important debate. Time is limited so I...
James Duddridge | 450 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to keep my comments as brief as possible, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome the opportuni...
Emily Thornberry | 450 c527-8 (Link to this contribution) I speak as a sponsor of the Climate Change Bill, and I urge the Government to consider incorporating...
Jo Swinson | 450 c528 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady not accept that, in fact, the Liberal Democrats in Scotland who hold the position...
Joan Walley | 450 c507 (Link to this contribution) Irrespective of who is putting that forward, I certainly support progress on microgeneration in ever...
Martin Horwood | 450 c507 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady therefore support the Liberal Democrat policy to make the code for sustainable bu...
Joan Walley | 450 c503-6 (Link to this contribution) As other Members have said, it is most important that Parliament is debating climate change—and on o...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c502-3 (Link to this contribution) For a start, the landfill tax is rather a bad example, as it was introduced by a Conservative Govern...
Barry Sheerman | 450 c502 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman admit that the antipathy that many of his colleagues exhibit towards Europe ...
Emily Thornberry | 450 c511 (Link to this contribution) Surely the point of green taxes is to change behaviour, but the revenues from a successful green tax...
Chris Huhne | 450 c508-11 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on finding Government time, albeit perhaps abridged, to discus...
Speaker | 450 c508 (Link to this contribution) Order. Several hon. Members are hoping to catch my eye. Although Mr. Speaker has not imposed a time ...
Joan Walley | 450 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. That is a key issue for us. Even if the Government are making progress with ...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 450 c507 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that planning regulations are key to delivering high-energy conservation ...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c501 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether my right hon. Friend is aware of the work that is being done to encourage the ...
Rob Marris | 450 c501 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c501 (Link to this contribution) It is good to see the Secretary of State in such a jolly mood. In the past, much of the green movem...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c502 (Link to this contribution) I thought that I had dwelt on regulation rather extensively, but I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Barry Sheerman | 450 c502 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman skates over the question of regulation, will he give way?
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) I cannot, as I must make progress. In that context, I turn now to emissions trading which, as the h...
Madeleine Moon | 450 c501 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c502 (Link to this contribution) That is a good question. The matter is being actively considered in my party’s policy review process...
David Miliband | 450 c502 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman’s flow, and I am delighted by what he is saying. Does he ...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c499 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I can confirm that. I hope that the Secretary of State or the Minister who winds up...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c498 (Link to this contribution) I do not really see the point that the hon. Gentleman is making, but perhaps our liberal Conservativ...
Nick Hurd | 450 c498 (Link to this contribution) On greening government, on which, under my hon. Friend’s stewardship, the Environmental Audit Commit...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c498 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. Of course, I am always happy to answer questions about Conservative policy.
Adrian Bailey | 450 c498 (Link to this contribution) Bearing in mind the hon. Gentleman’s earlier comments about taking people step by step, I was somewh...
Jeremy Hunt | 450 c498 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend as frustrated as I am that so many questions about Conservative policy are being a...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c497 (Link to this contribution) First, the hon. Gentleman will know that individual Members of Parliament have a duty to represent t...
David Leslie Taylor | 450 c497 (Link to this contribution) The House holds in high regard the hon. Gentleman’s reputation and track record on environmental iss...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c497 (Link to this contribution) Ideally, I am in favour of both approaches. An awful lot of car journeys are unnecessary and cover v...
Emily Thornberry | 450 c497 (Link to this contribution) Is it Conservative party policy that we use the car less, or that we use a different type of car? Is...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to comment on that point and I agree with my hon. Friend. The clim...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c501 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware of who is behind me. I am merely repeating what I have been told by senior represent...
Lord Redwood | 450 c501 (Link to this contribution) I hope to move my hon. Friend on from the slightly difficult passage he has reached in his speech. [...
Lord Whitehead | 450 c500 (Link to this contribution) In the context of environmental taxation, does the hon. Gentleman accept that capping and trading ca...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c499-500 (Link to this contribution) As we are in praise mode, let me add to the heap of praise showered on the hon. Gentleman by the Sec...
Adam Afriyie | 450 c500 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of consensus, does my hon. Friend share my concern that the climate change levy, of wh...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c500 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who also has a distinguished track record on these issues. He m...
Speaker | 450 c499 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I point out to the hon. Gentleman and the House that long interventions are not helpful, ...
Colin Challen | 450 c499 (Link to this contribution) I add my praise for the hon. Gentleman in his role as Chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee ...
Betty Williams | 450 c489 (Link to this contribution) I want to latch on to the phrase that my right hon. Friend used about energy efficiency. I also rais...
David Miliband | 450 c489 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to intrude on the private grief that has caused a divorce between the two main Opposit...
Chris Huhne | 450 c489 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State. Does he agree that the Kyoto agreement, imperfect though it...
David Miliband | 450 c489 (Link to this contribution) Given that the hon. Gentleman was a Member of the European Parliament, and since I have mentioned Eu...
David Miliband | 450 c487-9 (Link to this contribution) I will deal with these issues, but I always say that we must try to achieve at least a 60 per cent. ...
Colin Challen | 450 c487 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for that little bit of praise; I hope that it is deserved. I was hoping to get us...
David Miliband | 450 c487 (Link to this contribution) I am very tempted to give way to my hon. Friend, who is known as a long-standing campaigner on inter...
David Miliband | 450 c490 (Link to this contribution) I am sympathetic to my hon. Friend’s point, and I will certainly take up the matter with my right ho...
Judy Mallaber | 450 c491 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentioned biofuels and microgeneration. What is his view on the extent to which...
David Miliband | 450 c491 (Link to this contribution) I will give way in a second. Those measures included an extra 250,000 subsidised installations of h...
David Miliband | 450 c490 (Link to this contribution) Wherever the debate is going, I can assure my hon. Friend that I shall not be going to check on what...
Speaker | 450 c490 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am not sure where this is going. The debate is probably intended to be looking at the bigge...
David Miliband | 450 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will bear with me. I am conscious that about 15 Members want to participa...
Lord Whitehead | 450 c490 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lynne Jones | 450 c490 (Link to this contribution) On practising what we preach, I would like to point out to colleagues that, yesterday and today, I h...
David Miliband | 450 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I have a copy of a speech by the Leader of the Opposition, and I should like to quote...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c492 (Link to this contribution) I want to correct the Secretary of State on a point that he made a few moments ago about the Conserv...
David Miliband | 450 c492 (Link to this contribution) That is a very tempting offer from my hon. Friend. I think that I shall be in Wales on 9 November, s...
Madeleine Moon | 450 c492 (Link to this contribution) When the Minister looks at renewable technology, will he also consider other sources of carbon emiss...
David Miliband | 450 c493 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition is facing in a number of different directions at once, but—
Lord Barker of Battle | 450 c493 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the Opposition also clearly and unequivocally said that nuclear power should be the la...
Adrian Bailey | 450 c492 (Link to this contribution) We have done an enormous amount of good work on renewable energy, but the one area that we have negl...
David Miliband | 450 c492 (Link to this contribution) I can address my hon. Friend’s point directly. The third strand of work that I have taken over in th...
David Miliband | 450 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend is referring to the renewables obligation, which is a significant piece ...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the Secretary of State on securing this important debate on our return thi...
David Miliband | 450 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will let me, I should now finish. His Front-Bench colleague, the hon. Member f...
Paddy Tipping | 450 c496 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to be critical of the hon. Gentleman, who has a good record. He has just called for co...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c497 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with the hon. Gentleman’s point, but to say that we cannot use the car at all is not to...
David Drew | 450 c496 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman’s view of the threat that we face. If we are serious about how we deal wi...
David Miliband | 450 c493 (Link to this contribution) I have no fear of answering the question, perhaps unlike some Conservative Members. That is not the ...
Andrew Smith | 450 c493 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. Just to press the point, is it not clear from ...
David Miliband | 450 c493-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is an extremely distinguished former Chief Secretary and Secretary of State for...
Lord Barker of Battle | 450 c548-51 (Link to this contribution) But at least twice on the Labour Benches. It is nearly 18 years since Margaret Thatcher alerted the...
Lord Barker of Battle | 450 c548 (Link to this contribution) Rather unexpectedly the name of Margaret Thatcher has been widely invoked across the Chamber during ...
Baroness Featherstone | 450 c546-8 (Link to this contribution) I have received some 800 cards from members of Friends of the Earth in relation to the ““big ask””, ...
Philip Dunne | 450 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to turn this into a slanging match between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats...
Chris Huhne | 450 c545 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a direct criticism of our proposals, but we specifically did not propos...
Philip Dunne | 450 c545 (Link to this contribution) Luckily, we will never have to see those policies put into practice. There is broad consensus on th...
Chris Huhne | 450 c545 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that the behavioural changes, as far as we can estimate them from the MO...
Lord Deben | 450 c544 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that a blatant example of the Government’s double standards in internation...
Philip Dunne | 450 c544-5 (Link to this contribution) That is a remarkably insightful intervention. I intended to refer to a point that I came across yest...
Ian Pearson | 450 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned about that intervention, because it does not show a commitment to the renewables obli...
Lord Barker of Battle | 450 c553 (Link to this contribution) We have not said that the renewables obligation is a complete failure, but we are strongly critical ...
Ian Pearson | 450 c552 (Link to this contribution) I was just about to refer to my hon. Friend as I returned to the subject of international climate ch...
Ian Pearson | 450 c553 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid not. If I do, I will not have time to respond to the many other comments made during the...
Ian Pearson | 450 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) This has been an important debate and it has been evident from the speeches made that there is a lot...
Lord Deben | 450 c552 (Link to this contribution) As lower-carbon technologies are available to deal with refrigeration and air conditioning, will the...
Ian Pearson | 450 c552 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is very experienced in the ways of the House, and I am sure that he will fi...
David Miliband | 450 c487 (Link to this contribution) I noticed that the Press Association referred to the figure of 180—I assume that that is where the h...
David Miliband | 450 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is of course right to say that raw sewage coming into the Thames is a very serious iss...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c487 (Link to this contribution) On the protection of waterways, will the Secretary of State confirm that, owing to cuts in the DEFRA...
David Miliband | 450 c486 (Link to this contribution) We should certainly do what the hon. Gentleman says, but I am surprised that he did not point out th...
Justine Greening | 450 c486 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that some 40 million to 50 million litres of untreated sewage goes i...
David Miliband | 450 c486 (Link to this contribution) I will not take any interventions from Liberal Democrats, who have just wasted at least 15 minutes, ...
Charles Walker | 450 c486 (Link to this contribution) This Conservative recognises the importance of saving the global environment for everyone, but I am ...
David Miliband | 450 c487 (Link to this contribution) I really must try to make some progress. I said that I wanted to deal with the science and to look a...
David Miliband | 450 c485 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the opportunity to open this debate. Climate change is not just an environmen...
Lord Redwood | 450 c485 (Link to this contribution) Even if Britain is miraculously good at controlling its carbon emissions, the fact is that we are no...
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c486 (Link to this contribution) On flood defences, although we all agree that there is a serious problem, has the Secretary of State...
David Miliband | 450 c486 (Link to this contribution) The capital budget in respect of flooding has been protected, despite the difficulties that the Depa...
Chris Huhne | 450 c486 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Peter Ainsworth | 450 c496 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, but we need to be realistic about where w...
David Miliband | 450 c501 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman knows about continuous dissent!
David Miliband | 450 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) We certainly should protect our sea defences, but many people will ask why the right hon. Gentleman ...
Nick Hurd | 450 c521-2 (Link to this contribution) That is a point to take up with the shadow Chancellor. The point that I want to make about tax is th...
David Heath | 450 c513 (Link to this contribution) May I give my hon. Friend a small example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing ...
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Air pollution Climate change Carbon dioxide Environment protection Energy supply Exhaust emissions Droughts Floods Nuclear power Pollution control Natural disasters Renewable energy Rivers
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