George Freeman leads a Parliamentary debate on the importance of listening to local communities when planning the connectivity and substations needed to support offshore wind farms. He calls for a proper connection plan instead of the chaotic free for all that results in major cables and substations being brought onshore, with consequent major environmental and planning implications.
On Commonwealth Day, George Freeman pays tribute to scientists and researchers in the Commonwealth and calls for the establishment of a Commonwealth genomics programme to achieve scale and global leadership in genetic research.
Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, George Freeman says Parliament must respect the EU referendum vote to leave the political union, and calls on the PM to consider replacing the backstop with membership of EFTA to deliver a Brexit that most voters would support.
Following the Prime Minister’s statement to the House of Commons on the Government’s work to secure a withdrawal agreement that Parliament will approve, George Freeman calls on MPs to back the deal but in the event that it is rejected calls on the Government to look at EFTA as a solution.
George Freeman says the honours system should celebrate great public service to our nation and calls on the Prime Minister to bring in a process to strip people of that honour when they are found to have brought the system into disrepute.
George Freeman highlights the excellent work of Chapel Green School for its teaching of those with the most severe educational needs and calls on the Government to tackle the lack of skilled staff in the mainstream sector which has resulted in the school being massively oversubscribed.
George Freeman welcomes the Government’s decision to waive the fee for EU citizens to continue living in the UK and calls on the Prime Minister to work cross-party with Back-Bench Labour MPs from strong Leave-voting constituencies to find a moderate, sensible and orderly Brexit to honour the referendum result.
George Freeman speaks in the debate on the Withdrawal Agreement and warns that public trust in our politics and parliamentary democracy is dangerously low and urges the Government to work together across the House to deliver a Brexit we can be proud of.
Speaking in Prime Minister’s Questions, George Freeman seeks reassurance from the PM that the draft Withdrawal Agreement does not contain a trap in which the price of our retaining a United Kingdom is that we never diverge from EU rules.