Greg Barker MP is Minister of State for Energy & Climate Change. Follow Greg on Twitter. Photograph of Greg Barker over looking the Pentland Firth, launching the second UK Marine Energy Park This week, in the fast flowing waters between the tip of Caithness and the Orkney Islands, the Conservatives delivered another manifesto pledge. The […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Of the Parliamentary groupings founded by MPs after the 2010 general election, the 2020 group is perhaps the least understood. Channel 4's Michael Crick and the FT (£) covered its launch during conference last year. Those two reports implied the 2020 group was a centre-left grouping pre-occupied with "countering the […]
Greg Barker MP is Climate Change Minister. It is five years since David Cameron famously journeyed to the Arctic with WWF to highlight the threat of global warming. The dangers of Climate Change may be even more pressing now than they were back in 2006 but the political world and the global economy have changed […]
Greg Barker is MP for Bexhill and Battle and Minister of State for Climate Change. Today the Coalition has outlined plans to unleash the biggest home improvement programme since the Second World War. The new Energy Bill may be a huge step towards fulfilling our ambition to be “The Greenest Government ever,” but it is […]
On Friday East Surrey MP and former Shadow DEFRA Secretary Peter Ainsworth sought a second reading for the Green Energy (Definition and Promotion Bill). Here are some highlights from his speech: "There is at last cross-party agreement—something that I have long sought—on the need for Government action to put in place measures to liberate the […]
There were questions on Energy and Climate Change yesterday. Henley MP John Howell (right) asked about fuel poverty: "Given that the term “fuel poverty” does not seem to have been used once in yesterday’s Budget statement, can the Secretary of State confirm that Warm Front will be sufficient to address Age Concern’s assessment of the […]
Shadow Enviroment Minister Greg Barker has asked the Government an interesting question about clean energy: "To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his Department’s research and development budget in support of research into clean energy is in the next 12 months. [255178] Mr. Lammy: I have been asked to reply. The […]
The House of Commons had Energy and Climate Change questions yesterday. Shadow Secretary of State Greg Clark was very concerned about Britain’s gas reserves: "On 20 February this year—two weeks ago—Britain hit a new low, with just four days-worth of gas in storage in the reserve. Does the Minister consider that an acceptable margin for […]
In the latest edition of Hansard, the Prime Minister gives some rather terse responses to written questions put down by Conservative members. Chichester MP Andrew Tyrie asked about special advisers: "To ask the Prime Minister how many expert advisers, excluding special advisers, have been commissioned by his Office since June 2007; and on which topics […]
Greg Barker MP is Minister of State for Energy & Climate Change. Follow Greg on Twitter. Photograph of Greg Barker over looking the Pentland Firth, launching the second UK Marine Energy Park This week, in the fast flowing waters between the tip of Caithness and the Orkney Islands, the Conservatives delivered another manifesto pledge. The […]