2025 March

Since leaving the EU, the legal framework set out in the Agricultural Act 2020 sought to phase out annual payments under the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS) over a seven-year period until 2027, replacing the BPS with delinked payments that are not based on the size of land owned by an individual. These Regulations continue the

On 31 March 2025 the Commons considered the Bill at Third Reading. The Bill was initially introduced in the House of Lords on 9 October 2024 and first read in the Commons on 12 February 2025.  The Bill will help to introduce Skills England, a new Arm’s Length Body of the Department for Education that

I was pleased to support and open the IKEA Annual Retail Reception at the House of Commons on 31 March 2025. The title of the reception this year was ‘Better Neighbourhoods: Where Our Neighbourhoods Feel Like Home’. Building on their ‘Unwelcome Home’ campaign with the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, we heard from IKEA’s Sustainability