I have urged the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove to support further measures to combat the trade in tigers and other big cats. 

2019 – the Year of Green Action

2019 is the Year of Green Action and throughout this year the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is working on new initiatives to enhance and protect the environment.

I expressed serious concerns about the effects of the Loan Charge, during a debate in the House of Commons on Thursday 4th April.

Please find attached a letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond regarding Policy Changes coming into effect in April 2019

Today, I asked the Leader of the House of Commons for a debate on budgeting and the transparency of public projects and their finances, a Question prompted by HS2.

Please find attached a letter from the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid regarding Violent Crime.

Please find attached a letter from the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid regarding the Windrush Compensation Scheme. 

Please find a link to the April edition of Politics First.

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At Prime Minister's Question Time today, I highlighted World Autism Awareness Week and asked the Prime Minister to endorse the autism awareness training course for Members of Parliament, which will take place on Wednesday 1st May.

At this juncture, choosing to write about Brexit, once more, is inevitable: if I do not, there is not only an ‘elephant in the room’, if not more than one of them, but a queue of ‘elephants’ down the stairs, all around the car park and stretching out of sight down the road.