In Parliament

Harriett Baldwin calls on the Government to ban the sale of Chinese lanterns across the UK as “across our tinder-dry land they are simply acting as unguided flamethrowers.”

Harriett Baldwin highlights the difficulty in putting together a group of people to make use of the Government’s gigabit voucher scheme and calls on the Government to improve the scheme to strengthen the delivery of superfast broadband to rural areas.

Harriett Baldwin urges a quick return to the commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on international development and, at a time of increased disinformation in the world, she calls on the Government to maximise our soft power efforts such as the BBC, British Council and, the newly rebranded, British International Investment.

Harriett Baldwin secures an urgent meeting with the new Secretary of State for Education on the future of further and higher education in Malvern and the situation with Malvern Hills College in particular.

Harriett Baldwin questions the Government on working with the World Trade Organisation to help Ukraine get grain out of the illegally blockaded port of Odesa.

Harriett Baldwin welcomes the announcement of an extra 10,000 seasonal agricultural workers and asks the Secretary of State why he did not accept the request from farmers to go as high as 90,000 visas?

Harriett Baldwin calls on the Government to support a rapid change in the law so that so that hereditary peerages go down through the first and oldest child, as the Crown does, rather than the oldest son.

Following Worcestershire County Council’s unsuccessful bid for Bus Back Better funds, Harriett Baldwin calls on the Department for Transport to give the council feedback so that it can ‘bid back better’ next time.

Speaking during Transport Questions, Harriett Baldwin calls on the Government to look again at the compelling strategic outline business case for doubling the North Cotswold line between Oxford and Worcester.