In Parliament

Following the Secretary of State’s statement on the Government’s levelling up plans, Jesse Norman calls on the Government to roll out the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering form of learning and teaching across the country.

Jesse Norman calls on the Prime Minister to put pressure on the Environment Agency, Natural England and Natural Resources Wales to establish a single, integrated, long-term strategy to clean up the River Wye, and to set up a new ring-fenced national rivers recovery fund using fines paid by the water companies so we can clean up our rivers once and for all.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve water quality in the river Wye.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Nutrient Taskforce on phosphate pollution in the river Wye.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on allocating funding to tackle pollution in the river Wye.

Speaking in the Budget debate in the House of Commons, Jesse Norman called on the Government to establish a cross-border, cross-agency, single strategy to clear up phosphate pollution in the River Wye and restore it to its pristine glory.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Natural England and (b) the Environment Agency on pollution in the River Wye.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Ministers in the Welsh Government on pollution in the River Wye.

Jesse Norman calls on the Government to look at the potential of rolling out to other cities the transformative model of higher education and further education together, with a focus on skills, as exemplified by the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering in Hereford.