Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown leads a Westminster Hall debate on tax-free shopping for international visitors.
Following the Secretary of State for Education’s statement on the steps being taken to respond to the risk of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown backs the decision to close schools where necessary and asks that the 600 priority schools be surveyed as quickly as possible so that all schools can then be surveyed for RAAC.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls on Ministers to overturn the decision to withdraw General Licence 43 for shoots releasing gamebirds on special protection areas and to address the problems that farmers are having in transferring to the new mid-tier countryside stewardship scheme.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown speaks in a debate on the repurposing of seized Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine and calls for the reform of Companies House regulations to provide proper verification of the people in charge of companies, and to allow Companies House to work more closely with fraud investigations.
Following the Government update on the Ukraine recovery conference, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown asks if there is a willingness among the world’s wealthier nations that have not felt able to participate in the military effort to participate generously in the efforts to rebuild Ukraine.
At the conclusion of the debate on the Report from the Committee of Privileges on the conduct of Boris Johnson, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown pays tribute to the MPs who served on the committee and thanks them for the work they have done on behalf of Parliament despite facing much criticism and abuse.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown intervenes in a half-hour debate on food security and farming to highlight that inflation is primarily affecting staple foods and emphasises the senselessness of taking grade 1 and 2 agricultural land out of production here, only to fly in food from all around the world.