Today I have announced that I will not be seeking re-election as the MP for Brighton Pavilion. It has been the honour and privilege of my life to serve this amazing city and its people. Please click here to read my open to letter to constituents about this decision:
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Letter to the Health Secretary on Junior Doctors' Strike
[letter dated Thursday 6th April]
Rt. Hon. Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Dear Steve,
URGENT - junior doctor industrial action next week
Solar 'Rooftop Revolution' Westminster Hall debate
You can read my opening speech below.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Sharma. I am glad to have secured this debate about solar rooftop installations. Monday’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change left us in no doubt about the urgency of tackling the accelerating climate emergency, and one of the fastest, most effective ways of doing so here in the UK is to step up plans to decarbonise our housing stock. In this short debate, I want to focus on rooftop solar in particular.
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Power up local communities to hit climate targets, urges Green New Deal report
Powering up local communities with cleaner community energy, local food supplies and strengthened public transport networks is essential if the UK is to hit its 2030 climate targets, according to a new report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Green New Deal, co-chaired by Green MP Caroline Lucas and Labour MP Clive Lewis.
Letter to the Health Secretary on NHS & Social Care crisis
Rt Hon. Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Dear Steve,
NHS and Social Care crisis
I am writing further to my question during your statement to the House yesterday on the NHS Winter Pressures.
Response to the Energy Security Strategy
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, has the following response to the launch of the Government’s Energy Security Strategy, out today:
“This feels like we’re taking one very small step forward and several giant leaps back. This economically and environmentally illiterate Strategy proposes new North Sea oil & gas fields which do absolutely nothing to lower household bills, a review to lift the ban on climate-wrecking fracking, and a swathe of painfully slow to construct and vastly expensive nuclear reactors.
Letter to the Chancellor on Public Sector Net Investment
Dear Chancellor,
We are writing to you ahead of next week’s Spring Statement to urge you to amend the 3% cap on Public Sector Net Investment (PSNI) included in the Charter for Budget Responsibility introduced to the House in the Autumn, and to introduce a windfall tax on the excess profits of oil and gas companies to both help struggling households and advance the transition to a zero emissions economy.
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The gas crisis and soaring bills
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Report on Downing Street parties during lockdown
The atmosphere at Westminster has been febrile over the past two weeks, waiting for the report by the senior civil servant Sue Gray into the parties that went on at Downing Street during Covid lockdowns. My most recent column in Metro set out why I think he should resign over the issue.
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