Philip Dunne calls on the Government to deliver the £312m investment in Shropshire’s healthcare facilities and not delay by taking the process back to the start with uncosted, unfunded plans for a single site hospital.
Philip Dunne intervenes in a debate on the Health and Care Bill amendment on the cap on care costs, to point out that domiciliary care costs are being included within the means tested maximum payment individuals may have to fund, for those who need care in their homes, which at present are excluded.
Philip Dunne calls on the forthcoming Planning Bill to include measures for the proper separation of surface and foul water systems for new developments and for the priorities of Ofwat to be adjusted to focus not just on leakage and keeping bills down, but on keeping sewage out of our rivers by investing more in the treatment network.
Philip Dunne supports the Government amendment to the Environment Bill that places a legal duty on water companies to reduce sewage discharges, to be set out every 5 years in a formal plan in which each company will show how it will achieve and fund progressive reductions in sewage discharges each year, with a power for the Government to direct water companies if the plans are not good enough.
Intervening in a debate on sustainability and climate change in the national curriculum, Philip Dunne highlights the Environmental Audit Committee Green Jobs Report recommendation that environmental sustainability be included across all subjects in primary and secondary schools, and in the vocational curriculum.
Philip Dunne intervenes in the COP26 backbench debate to highlight the UK’s leadership by incorporating our share of international aviation and maritime emissions for the first time in the UK’s sixth Carbon Budget and being the first, and only country so far, to do so.
Speaking in a debate on Lords Amendments to the Environment Bill, Philip Dunne welcomes the measures from his Private Member’s Bill included by the Government in Lords Amendments, but also spoke in favour of the additional Amendment based on the primary clause his Bill, seeking to place a duty on water companies to stop sewage discharge into our rivers.
