In Parliament

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.

Harriett Baldwin welcomes the Bills put forward in the Queen’s Speech and highlights the support the Government is providing to families facing increasing energy costs and rising inflation.

Harriett Baldwin calls on the Government to hold a debate on changes needed to improve Parliament, in particular, to eradicate the constitutional sexism in the House of Lords where one eighth of the seats are reserved for men only due to the system of reserving 92 seats for hereditary peers.

Harriett Baldwin encourages mayor-to-mayor twinning links with towns in Poland to support Polish communities’ efforts to help Ukrainian refugees and welcomes the twinning arrangement between Pershore and Wyry in Poland.