Green Winchester

On Tuesday morning I was sat around the cabinet table inside No.10 opposite the Prime Minister.

For the avoidance of doubt, you didn’t miss something in the recent ‘mini’ reshuffle; I was there with a small delegation of colleagues from the Conservative Environment Network.

Winchester and Chandler's Ford's MP was right back to work after the Summer recess as he sat down round the Cabinet table with fellow CEN MPs to talk to the Prime Minister.

I recently led an important debate on the future of electric vehicles in the House of Commons; a subject I know will be of interest to many readers of the Hampshire Chronicle.

Steve Brine led an important debate on the future of electric vehicles in the House of Commons this week.

The Government has committed to phasing out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 and wants all new cars and vans to be zero emission by 2035.

Ministers have set out plans to explore how local councils demonstrate local support and respond to views of their communities when considering new onshore wind development.

Following his return from the COP27 summit in Egypt, the Prime Minister gave a statement to the House of Commons to update MPs on the progress of the meeting and the UK's influence of the global green agenda.

The ban on shale gas fracking in England has been restored by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in his first PMQs. His predecessor Liz Truss had lifted the ban on the controversial process where there was local consent.

Members of Parliament from across the House of Commons questioned government plans around a return to fracking during an opposition day debate.

A local MP has pressed Ministers on the future of pro-cycling schemes, dubbed ‘mini-Holland schemes, during a session of oral Parliamentary questions to the Department for Transport.

Hundreds of people saddled up to show support for a greener way of getting around Winchester.