Responding to the Autumn Statement, Philip Dunne welcomes the setting of a target to reduce energy demand in this country by 15% by 2030 and calls on the Government to ensure that the energy efficiency taskforce adequately engages with industry to ensure that the scheme will work and deliver reductions at a household level.
Philip Dunne highlights the soil erosion problem off St Agnes beach in Cornwall recently, rather than caused by sewage discharge. Both are problems, but he calls on campaigners to draw distinction when it is pointed out to them, rather than leap to wrong conclusions.
Philip Dunne calls on the Government to encourage UK mortgage lenders to look to best practice abroad to maintain affordability of mortgage payments, for example by offering mortgagees extensions to their mortgage as an option to keep monthly mortgage payments affordable.
Philip Dunne intervenes in a debate on rivers achieving bathing water quality status to highlight the Environmental Audit Committee’s view that achieving such status should be an objective of every water company to allow more people to enjoy swimming in all weathers in more and more rivers around the country.
Speaking in a debate on Levelling Up Rural Britain, Ludlow MP Philip Dunne calls on the Government to revisit the metrics for rural deprivation in the allocation of funding to rural areas and continue to work to connect rural homes to superfast broadband, support rural transport provision, and, as a matter of urgency, clarify the way in which those in off-grid homes and park homes can gain access to help with their energy bills.
Philip Dunne calls for more support for farmers affected by the avian influenza outbreak, including compensation for birds that have died from avian flu, flexibility on the labelling of free-range eggs and help to ensure retailers are willing to stock vaccinated meat.