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17 December 2024 / 17 December 2024 by Green Party
Reacting to news that government and regulators have broken the law by being too lenient on water companies that spill sewage, and on the day Thames Water seeks a £3bn bailout, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay MP said: “For too long billions have been leaking out to shareholders instead of going into fixing our broken […]
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16 December 2024 / 16 December 2024 by Green Party
Reacting to the government’s White Paper on the reorganisation of local government, Green Party MP Ellie Chowns said: “There is much to be welcomed in this White Paper including strengthening the rights of communities to purchase cherished local assets such as youth clubs, libraries or sport facilities; increasing powers over control of local transport, better […]
Responding to measures contained within the government’s White Paper on English Devolution, which the government will announce today, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay MP said: “Local democracy is in urgent need of reform but this White Paper does not deliver the real change our local councils need. “It steals power away from local people and […]
12 December 2024 / 12 December 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the “planning overhaul” announced today by government, Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay, said: “This new planning framework from Government fails to tackle the housing crisis head on and instead panders yet further to the interests of private developers whose main interest is lining their pockets. By pitting what’s happening as a binary battle […]
11 December 2024 / 11 December 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood’s announcement that prisons may run out of space despite government plans to open 14,000 more prison places, Green Party MP Siân Berry said, “The justice secretary is facing the reality that however fast the Government builds prisons, at the current rates of offending and reoffending, the respite from […]
10 December 2024 by Green Party
Responding to the news that Rachel Reeves is asking Ministers to identify efficiency savings worth 5% of their current budgets, Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay said: “Labour call their 5% cuts across government departments “efficiency savings.” “We call it what it is: cuts to services. “This amounts to the continuation of the same damaging, unpopular and […]
5 December 2024 / 5 December 2024 by Green Party
Responding to today’s “milestones” speech by the Prime Minister, Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay, said, “These milestones aren’t a clear route to real change. Today’s listicle, while pointing in the right direction on a handful of issues, is missing the wholesale ambition and drive that a government elected on a change agenda needs. We have […]
4 December 2024 by Green Party
Responding to this morning’s NAO report on the crisis in Britain’s prisons, Green Party MP Siân Berry said, “The National Audit Office has revealed in stark terms the futility of a society trying to imprison away crime. “However fast the Government builds prisons, at the current rates of offending and reoffending, the respite from the current […]
3 December 2024 / 3 December 2024 by Green Party
Former Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, has given her reaction to suggestions that plans for a Natural History GCSE have been shelved because it is “seen as a Conservative party initiative.” Caroline was one of the key drivers of the GCSE in the last parliament. She said: “I very much hope that Labour will look at this again, […]
2 December 2024 / 2 December 2024 by Green Party
Responding to news that local councils have told the government that its plan to build 1.5m new homes in England over the next five years is “unrealistic”, Green MP Ellie Chowns said: “Labour’s housing strategy involves cosying up to big wealthy developers and falling for the myth that the private sector will build the housing […]
