Thank you for contacting me about the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill. I take a particularly keen interest in this bill as I sit on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee and have previously worked in the agricultural sector.
Thank you for contacting me about the Electoral Commission.
As you may be aware, the Electoral Commission has sought in recent years to bring criminal offences before the courts. This is not a role that has ever been agreed by the Government or by Parliament.
The UK Internal Market Bill is fundamentally about protecting the integrity of the United Kingdom and this was made clear when the Prime Minister introduced the Bill.
The Prime Minister made a statement in the House of Commons outlining further national restrictions for the whole of England. The outline for the latest government guidelines for England is as follows:
Our planning system needs to work for those who use it to make sure new homes, businesses and vital infrastructure are not held back by outdated, complicated and time-consuming bureaucracy.