The housing emergency demands urgency and ambition
Category: Other issues
Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill Second Reading
I welcome the Government’s attempt to strengthen airline passengers’ rights, especially with the worries about aviation fuel due to Israel and Trump launching a disastrous and illegal war on Iran. I am happy to support the Civil Aviation Authority being given additional enforcement powers to ensure that airlines comply with consumer laws. However, I am not so keen on legislation that makes it easier to expand airports, especially if that increases noise and pollution for people living in the immediate area or along the flight path. It is extremely bad for human health and well-being.
Devolved Public Services: Funding
Apart from a fair rail infrastructure allocation, which is absolutely needed—the Welsh Government are owed £4 billion for HS2 being misnamed as being for England and Wales—the Welsh Government are asking for other things, such as devolution of policing and justice and of the Crown Estate. Where do the Government stand on those issues?
Climate Change: Government Action
My Lords, the King’s Speech did mention climate change. He said that his Government would be a “leading advocate” in the fight against climate change, yet there is not a single policy specifically about nature or the environment in the whole speech, in the whole government agenda. Given that and given that nature and the environment underpin our economic security, our food security and our productivity, when are the Government going to take this whole issue seriously and produce some policies where nature is supported?
Lord Whitehead replied for HMG:
The noble Baroness will know what the Government have been doing to take on the recent environment and nature plan. That is now at the heart of the clean power 2030 drive to ensure that our power systems are compatible with and supportive of nature and the environment rather than destructive of them. That is a commitment that the Government have. While it is true that this King’s Speech has not put forward specific measures relating to this, it is nevertheless interwoven in everything that the Government are doing as far as climate change and low carbon are concerned.
Greens in the House July 2024 to May 2026
The Rights of UK Rivers: Reimagining their Future
Speaking at the Conduit Club 25th June on The Rights of UK Rivers: Reimagining their Future – The Conduit
The Armenian Genocide
Last week I attended the Cenotaph to lay a wreath on behalf of the Green Party for the 1,500,000 Armenians who were killed – starved, tortured and murdered – between 1915 and 1917. 37 countries recognise as genocide and the UK still does not. It’s time we did.
Plastic Pollution Reduction
Tax the rich
Marine Protected Areas
My Lords, I would like to ask why No. 10 is so eco-stupid, but that would be very rude of me, so instead I ask the Minister, because I know she feels strongly on these issues, to please explain to No. 10 or whoever produces these policies that we need nature and that bottom trawling destroys a complete ecosystem that is irrecoverable for decades, so it actually militates against any sort of food stocks for the future?
Hansard record here
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 