Category: Other issues
Road Injuries and Deaths
Following my intervention in this debate last week the RAC supported campaign Lock out Drink Driving have written to the Minister asking for a meeting
Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill
There is absolutely no techno fix for the pollution that aviation causes and the Royal Society worked out that to reach net zero for aviation fuel we need at least half the UK’s agricultural land to grow the raw materials. That means less fodder for livestock and higher prices for cereals and food. Last year, the 2025 UK harvest was the second worst on record. If the Government want farmers to grow jet fuel instead of food, prices in the shops are going to rise in order to keep the planes flying. As we enter the era of climate crisis impacting on world food production, our country will have less farming land available but will want more of it devoted to support the oxymoronic idea of sustainable aviation Continue reading “Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill”
Crime and Policing Bill Cmttee Stage Day 3
This Bill creates two new offences in Clause 56: child criminal exploitation and cuckooing. These are important steps. They recognise forms of exploitation that front-line workers, police officers and charities have been grappling with for years. However, the Bill currently does only half the job. It recognises the exploitation, but not the victim. When vulnerable children or exploited adults are used as tools by criminal networks, the criminal justice system should not compound their suffering by treating them as willing participants. These amendments I have tabled would complete the logic of the Bill and ensure that the law protects those who need protection most. Continue reading “Crime and Policing Bill Cmttee Stage Day 3”
Planning & Infrastructure Bill Report Stage Day 4
If you are in opposition, why do you not oppose? What the Conservatives have done is playing politics. This is why politicians have such a bad reputation. Continue reading “Planning & Infrastructure Bill Report Stage Day 4”
Planning & Infrastructure Bill Report Stage Day 3
I refute the concept of a grey belt. A grey belt is green belt that has been left to rot, and we should be recovering that grey belt and making it green belt again Continue reading “Planning & Infrastructure Bill Report Stage Day 3”
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
A hostile environment for home education
My speech to the House on day 9 of committee stage of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill:
I declare an interest as a grandmother of three home-educated children. My experience tells me that school is not suitable for all children. Not all children can find a suitable school and you do not need to be wealthy to create a very rich educational learning environment out of school. Continue reading “A hostile environment for home education”
Jenny defends allotments on Morning TV
Great British Energy: Nuclear Development
I intervened yesterday in this debate to say: he Minister said that everybody around the House supports nuclear. No, the Green Party does not support nuclear. It is a dinosaur technology and it is really very expensive, when you look at the planetary impact and the cost to the Exchequer. It is going to be a disaster and it will be overtaken by sea-level rises as well. Why do the Government not take some good advice on this instead of believing in nuclear all the time? Continue reading “Great British Energy: Nuclear Development”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 