Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Parliamentary Support

MPs supporting the Marine Bill Campaign

Local MPs Diana Johnson (MP for Hull North) and John Prescott (MP for Hull East) showed their support for the Marine Bill by attending a Wildlife Trust event at the Deep in summer highlighting the loss of marine megafauna and the need for UK legislation to create protected areas within our seas. Hugh Bayley (MP for York) has showed his support on several occassions by attending a meeting with the Trust to learn how the Marine Bill will affect local people and through writing to Hugh Irranca Davies (Minister for the Natural and Marine Environment Wildlife and Rural Affairs) asking him to include the Marine Bill within the Queens Speech.

MPs supporting the Living Landscapes campaign and signing the Early Day Motion 2190

"which puts pressure on the government to ensure that the climate change adaptation programmes are underpinned by policies and proposals that value the natural environment."

• Paul Truswell - MP for Pudsey
• Hugh Bayley - MP for York
• John Battle - MP for Leeds West
• Linda Riordan - MP for Halifax
• Dennis Mcshane - MP for Rotherham
• Rt Hon David Curry - MP for Skipton and Ripon

Additional pledges by the local MPs are also evident below:

Hugh Bayley - MP for York

• Write to the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, and urge him to put the natural environment at the heart of the climate change adaptation programmes and policies under the Climate Change Bill.  
  
•  Work with your local or country Wildlife Trust by becoming an ambassador for a ‘Living Landscape’ scheme or climate change adaptation more generally. 
•   Work with your local or country Wildlife Trust to promote this vision in the context of climate change adaptation to local audiences e.g. local community groups, secondary schools.

John Battle - MP for Leeds West

•  Write to the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, and urge him to put the natural environment at the heart of the climate change adaptation programmes and policies under the Climate Change Bill.  
•  Work with your local or country Wildlife Trust by becoming an ambassador for a ‘Living Landscape’ scheme or climate change adaptation more generally. 
•  Work with your local or country Wildlife Trust to promote this vision in the context of climate change adaptation to local audiences e.g. local community groups, secondary schools.
•   Make regular visits to Kirkstall site with schools etc

Linda Riordan - MP for Halifax

• Write to the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, and urge him to put the natural environment at the heart of the climate change adaptation programmes and policies under the Climate Change Bill.   
• Work with your local or country Wildlife Trust by becoming an ambassador for a ‘Living Landscape’ scheme or climate change adaptation more generally. 
• Work with your local or country Wildlife Trust to promote this vision in the context of climate change adaptation to local audiences e.g. local community groups, secondary schools.

Dennis MacShane - MP for Rotherham

• Write to the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, and urge him to put the natural environment at the heart of the climate change adaptation programmes and policies under the Climate Change Bill.  
• Work with your local or country Wildlife Trust by becoming an ambassador for a ‘Living Landscape’ scheme or climate change adaptation more generally. 
• Work with your local or country Wildlife Trust to promote this vision in the context of climate change adaptation to local audiences e.g. local community groups, secondary schools.