Protect Our Environment

On Tuesday 21st September, Selaine Saxby MP was promoted to the position of Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) at the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

For well over a decade, there has been talk of a ‘digital divide’, with people in cities enjoying access to high internet speeds and reliable connections, while those living in the countryside get neither.

Selaine Saxby MP will be hosting the North Devon Climate Summit ahead of the upcoming UN Climate Conference taking place in Glasgow.

With the CEE Bill to be presented once again to Parliament I, like all of my parliamentary colleagues, will we inundated with requests to support it.

Selaine Saxby MP asks the Second Church Estates Commissioner, Andrew Selous MP, about the role small rural churches and their congregants can play in hitting the Church’s goal of net zero by 2030.

Selaine Saxby MP today led the World Ocean Day 2021 debate in Parliament.

The National Trust has planted thousands of young saplings in areas across the UK as part of its ambitions to attract more wildlife, create new homes for nature, protect landscapes prone to flooding and to help in the fight against climate change.

I asked the Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, if Government time could be allocated to discussing how to deal with the problem of microplastic and nurdles at source.

I secured and opened a debate on British meat and dairy products, and argued as to the environmental benefits of the industry and of buying British.

Full text of speech can be found here.