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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

The Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill had 6 amendments selected for debate and votes:  This Bill, introduced to the House on 13 November 2024, amends the non-domestic rating system in England to enable the introduction of new tax rates, introducing powers to create new lower tax rates for qualifying retail, hospitality and leisure

I spoke in the debate on the Second Reading of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on Monday 24 March 2025. It gave me an opportunity to raise concerns about the procedure of planning decisions. You can read my speech in full below: “As we heard from the Secretary of State and Deputy Prime Minister, this