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Ruth Chambers
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🌍 Senior fellow @GreenAllianceUK. Chair @feedbackorg. Hon Prof @ucllaw_env. Advisory board @RiverActionUK
Jul 16 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
👑 📢 On the eve of the King's Speech, a thread on why the process of making laws is as important as their content.

📝 Ten tips for @LucyMPowell and the new government.

green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/how-t…
A briefing from environmental think tank Green Alliance setting out ten ways in which the new government could improve law making processes. 1/ Make public consultation meaningful 💚

Asking for views before policy is set in stone should be standard ⭐

As a minimum, the govt should:

✅ Update its consultation principles
✅ Publish responses

endsreport.com/article/184873…
Extract from a blog by the former head of the civil service Sir Jeremy Heywood (who sadly died in 2018), who understood the importance of public consultation. The principles he refers to were later watered down by the then government.
May 10, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🏝️ Is today’s Retained EU Law Bill update a helpful step forward or a legislative mirage?

Answer: both!

Read on for more thoughts. 🚨 Good news first. The govt has listened to the vast array of voices who raised alarm bells.

it's retreated from the cliff edge which put many important laws at risk.

Instead 4,200 laws will be saved automatically with around 600 revoked at the end of 2023.
Feb 28, 2023 • 31 tweets • 13 min read
🍿 Prime time pre-dinner slot for the environment in today's @UKHouseofLords debate on the govt's plans for retained EU law.

📺 Tune in to the debate 👇

🐬 Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville kicks off with a plea to save nature protection laws.

parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0a… 🌊 Baroness Bakewell also highlights the threats to laws that protect our rivers and bathing waters.

📢 @this_damselfly from @WildlifeTrusts explains why these laws matter to nature and people.

wildlifetrusts.org/blog/ali-morse…
Feb 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
👀 NEW 👀

We've been delving into the latest funding for environmental public bodies.

👇 The budget for the new @OfficeforEP is falling short of its requirements and its counterparts /1 These figures are from the @DefraGovUK 'supply estimates' published on 21 February.

This is how the Government seeks authority from Parliament for its own spending each year /2

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Oct 20, 2021 • 26 tweets • 20 min read
The #EnvironmentBill is back in the @HouseofCommons today.

MPs have just started debating 15 improvements recommended by @UKHouseofLords

Our thoughts on what's needed to get through this parliamentary ping pong🏓asap.

Tune in for live tweets!

greenallianceblog.org.uk/2021/10/20/the… There will be 3 #EnvironmentBill debates today.

Debate 1: environmental targets/principles, the Office for Environmental Protection, air quality, soils

Debate 2: nature, sewage pollution, ancient woodland, deforestation

Debate 3: the circular economy

commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/document/50711…
Jun 28, 2021 • 81 tweets • 41 min read
The #EnvironmentBill is back in @UKHouseofLords for the next round of debates.

Some hot topics today, including the independence of the Office for Environmental Protection & how to put the environment at the heart of policy making.

Tune in till 10pm👇

parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/dd… The first debate kicks off with @GreenJennyJones talking about the "lack of bite" in the #EnvironmentBill

She criticises the "weaselly squirming" wording on environmental principles.

A stronger framework is needed to put the environment at the heart of the government's policy.
Jun 7, 2021 • 73 tweets • 35 min read
The #EnvironmentBill is in @UKHouseofLords today for its 'second reading', when it will debated for several hours by Peers.

We'll be live tweeting and you can watch from 2.30pm at parliamentlive.tv/Lords 68 Peers are signed up to speak in this important debate on the #EnvironmentBill

You can see the line up here

lordswhips.org.uk/todays-lists