Speaking in a debate on road congestion on the A40, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown highlights that part of the solution is to improve the railways and in particular calls for the full doubling of the Cotswold line right through from Moreton-in-Marsh to Oxford.
With the threat of the worst famine in a century in Yemen next year, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls on the Government to everything possible to help broker a peace settlement under the auspices of UN special negotiator Martin Griffiths.
During the opening day of the debate on the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown commends the Prime Minister on her position that there will be no second referendum as a second referendum would reopen all the wounds and put the Union itself in jeopardy.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown welcomes the Government’s decision to remove proposals to ban .50-calibre weapons from the Offensive Weapons Bill and calls for a proper evidence-based consultation as to whether these weapons do or do not form a danger to the public.
Following the Prime Minister’s statement on her draft Brexit agreement, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown urges Members of Parliament to scrutinise the agreement in its entirety and judge whether it is truly in the national interest to crash out of the EU with no deal.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown asks the Government what is being done to ensure that there will be no staff shortages in the social care sector when we leave the EU given that 10,000 EU citizens work in the sector.
Speaking in the Summer Adjournment Debate, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown raises four local matters with the Government: the negative revenue support grant for Stroud District Council, the missing link on the A417, making the Cotswolds into a national park and the delays in the completion of a £400 million contract awarded to the Fire Service College at Moreton-in-Marsh.