On Tuesday Baroness McIntosh of Pickering, Chair of the Licensing Act 2003 Committee, asked whether HMG plan to ensure that the three tests set out by the Committee on Climate Change with regard to shale gas exploitation by fracking are met before any fracking work proceeds, and if so, how. Continue reading “Jenny speaks in House debate on Fracking”
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Giving the Lords a chance to determine their own future
“In May of this year I introduced a private member’s Bill to reform the House of Lords. Continue reading “Giving the Lords a chance to determine their own future”
Government meddling has labelled a generation of children as failures
A mix of ideological zeal and incompetence means that over half of the children taking the recent SATS papers failed to reach the ‘age expected’ norm in at least one of the tests. Continue reading “Government meddling has labelled a generation of children as failures”
Undercover police guidance published
The publication of the new rule book on undercover policing is welcome, but it fails to spell out clear criteria concerning whether an operation is needed in the first place. Continue reading “Undercover police guidance published”
Jenny takes part in Evening Standard debate
Leading London ‘experts’ went head-to-head in a debate on whether Britain should remain in the EU.
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Queen’s speech: Let’s find solutions to the problems in prisons, not add to them
Further steps towards privatisation of the prison system will make an already bad situation even worse. Privatisation of the prison system won’t solve the problem of overcrowding, a lack of money and staffing shortages. But the solution is simple. We must send fewer people to jail. Continue reading “Queen’s speech: Let’s find solutions to the problems in prisons, not add to them”
Jenny finishes third and last term at City Hall
May 5th 2016 marks Jenny and Darren’s last day at City Hall. This successful duo stepped down from their roles as Assembly Members to pursue other work. Continue reading “Jenny finishes third and last term at City Hall”
Jenny speaks at spycops conference
The centre for crime and justice held a two day conference on subversion, sabotage and spying at Southbank university over the weekend.
Jenny attends Public Inquiry into undercover policing
The two-day preliminary hearing was to determine if the inquiry will be open and transparent or whether it will be a secret process, which would largely exclude both the public and non-state ‘core participants’. Jenny has applied for core participant status.
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Peers defeat government in vote on child refugees
Jenny joined 305 other peers to defeat the government in the House of Lords: they voted to accept 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees into the UK from Europe.
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Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 