Along with the great, the good and the not so good, I signed a letter to the Prime Minister asking for a ban on the Ivory trade. The Government has responded to the campaign by Action for Elephants and others, by toughening up the regulations governing the trade. However, as an addendum to the letter explains, this falls short of what really needs to be done in order to help safeguard the lives of elephants and rhinos from the people who hunt them.
On Tuesday evening Jenny hosted an event for the Campaign to Protect Rural England in the House of Lords ‘River Room’.
CPRE were launching their report entitled ‘Safe under us?’ – the report is an investigation into widespread threats from house-building in the London Metropolitan Green Belt and highlights how government policies and sanctions appear to be forcing councils to release Green Belt land for development. Continue reading “Jenny hosts CPRE report launch event”
Baroness Jenny Jones, the Green Party peer in House of Lords, said:
“The lack of Government funding is a clear message to the Mayor of London and those local authorities considering serious action on air pollution that they will have to go it alone. Continue reading “Government rejects diesel scrappage scheme to reduce air pollution and early deaths”
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”
“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”
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”
Leading London ‘experts’ went head-to-head in a debate on whether Britain should remain in the EU.
Continue reading “Jenny takes part in Evening Standard debate”
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”
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”
The centre for crime and justice held a two day conference on subversion, sabotage and spying at Southbank university over the weekend.
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 