Justin Tomlinson

Justin Tomlinson

North Swindon

North Swindon MP Backs Important Amendment To Reduce Storm Overflows In Rivers

North Swindon MP Backs Important Amendment To Reduce Storm Overflows In Rivers

Local MP, Justin Tomlinson is supporting an important amendment to the Environment Bill proposed by the Government, to strengthen enforcement powers and provide more oversight in reducing storm overflows into rivers. During wet weather, storm overflows are designed to prevent contaminated wastewater and sewage from overloading the sewer system and backing up at times of heavy rainfall. The Government already incentivises the minimising of storm overflows, by imposing large penalties on water com...

Justin Welcomes Major Announcement on Government's Broadband Scheme

Justin Welcomes Major Announcement on Government's Broadband Scheme

North Swindon MP, Justin Tomlinson has welcomed an announcement that up to 570,000 additional households and businesses in rural areas will soon be able to access super-fast broadband as part of the Goverment's Project Gigabit. Project Gigabit is a £5 billion plan by the Government to improve broadband connectivity in the UK and unite areas in through communication. The project is estimated to bring super or lighting fast broadband speeds to more than 1 million homes, as well as bringing additio...

Education Secretary Puts Climate Change At The Heart Of Education

Education Secretary Puts Climate Change At The Heart Of Education

Young people will be empowered to take action on the environment as part of new measures designed to put climate change at the heart of education. Announcing a range of measures in a speech at COP26 today, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi will set out his vision for all children to be taught about the importance of conserving and protecting our planet. Teachers will be supported to deliver world-leading climate change education through a model science curriculum, which will be in place by 2023,...

Swindon Advertiser Column

Swindon Advertiser Column

World leaders, royalty and celebrities arrived in Glasgow this week keen to play their part in the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference. A Conference of the Parties (COP) brings together almost every country on earth for global climate summits, allowing countries to collaborate and work together to tackle climate change. Away from the glitz and glamour (which can often be more of a distraction from the key issues) there has been some constructive discussions and some essential pledges m...

End Of Coal In Sight As UK Secures Ambitious Commitments At COP26 Summit

End Of Coal In Sight As UK Secures Ambitious Commitments At COP26 Summit

The UK has secured a 190-strong coalition of countries and organisations at COP26, with countries such as Poland, Vietnam, Egypt, Chile and Morocco announcing commitments to phase out coal power. Today’s commitments, brought together through UK-led efforts including the new ‘Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement’, encompass developed and developing countries, major coal users and climate vulnerable countries. This includes 18 countries committing for the first time to phase out and not...

Chancellor: UK Will Be The World’s First Net Zero Financial Centre

Chancellor: UK Will Be The World’s First Net Zero Financial Centre

- Over $130 trillion – 40% of the world’s financial assets – will now be aligned with the climate goals in the Paris Agreement, thanks to climate commitments from financial services firms - New UK climate finance projects funded from the UK’s international climate finance commitment will help developing countries to fund green growth and adapt to the changing climate The Chancellor will set out the UK’s plans to become the world’s first net zero aligned financial centre and welcome “historic” cl...

Over 100 Leaders Make Landmark Pledge To End Deforestation At COP26

Over 100 Leaders Make Landmark Pledge To End Deforestation At COP26

In the biggest step forward in protecting the world’s forests in a generation, more than 100 leaders will commit to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 at an event convened by the Prime Minister at COP26 today. The pledge is backed by almost £14 billion ($19.2 billion) in public and private funding. Countries spanning from the northern forests of Canada and Russia to the tropical rainforests of Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo will endors...

Over Eight Million People In The UK Receive COVID-19 Booster Jabs

Over Eight Million People In The UK Receive COVID-19 Booster Jabs

Over eight million people have now received their COVID-19 booster jab, the latest figures show today (Monday 1 November 2021), ensuring the protection they’ve secured from their first two doses is maintained over the winter months. Today’s figures follow hundreds of thousands of vaccinations over the weekend, with more than 820,000 administered since Friday. People who are eligible are also able to get a booster at hundreds of walk-in sites across the country from today, as long as it’s been si...

Over A Million Jobseekers To Benefit From New Training Opportunities

Over A Million Jobseekers To Benefit From New Training Opportunities

Over a million jobseekers could benefit from extra training following the latest changes to Universal Credit, helping fill vacancies from the care sector to the engineering industry. Across Great Britain, Universal Credit claimants can attend full-time work-related training courses for up to 12 weeks while still receiving benefit payments, following an extension to the rule changes around the Department for Work and Pensions’ Train and Progress (TaP) initiative. Before the DWP Train and Progress...

UK Donates 20 Million More Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccines To Countries In Need

UK Donates 20 Million More Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccines To Countries In Need

- New donation to be delivered by the end of 2021 as part of UK’s 100 million commitment - Further donations in 2022 will mean entire UK Janssen supply and half of UK Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines will have been donated to countries in need - PM will call on fellow G20 leaders to vaccinate the world by the end of next year A further ten million Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines have been sent by the UK to COVAX, with 10 million more due to be delivered in the coming weeks to some of the world’s most vul...