In an urgent question, Labour’s Fleur Anderson asked for a statement from the government on ministerial severance payments following the high number of resignations taking place in the previous week. Cabinet office under-secretary Heather Wheeler confirmed that three months pay as a severance payment has been in place since legislation was passed “by parliament in…
Labour MP Fleur Anderson has proposed a new law which would ban wet wipes containing plastic. In a ten minute rule motion, the MP for Putney said that in 2019, a staggering 11 billion wet wipes were used in the UK. “The plastic in wet wipes breaks down into microplastics, which don’t dissolve ever. They…
