Gill Furniss consistently voted for improving biodiversity

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Major votes

• On 20 Oct 2021: Gill Furniss voted to require interim targets for environmental matters to be met. Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • improving air quality
  • improving environmental water quality
• On 20 Oct 2021: Gill Furniss voted not to exempt national security and defence as well as taxation and spending from those policy areas where ministers would be required to have due regard to environmental policy. Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • measures to prevent climate change
  • improving air quality
  • improving environmental water quality
• On 20 Oct 2021: Gill Furniss voted to require authorities to be satisfied there are not negative impacts on honeybees or wild pollinators before authorising pesticide products. Show vote
• On 26 May 2021: Gill Furniss voted to require public bodies in England to act in accordance with relevant Local Nature Recovery Strategies when exercising their functions. Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • more proscriptive planning laws
• On 26 May 2021: Gill Furniss voted to ban the burning of certain types of vegetation in almost all upland areas with peat soils in England. Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • measures to prevent climate change
• On 26 Jan 2021: Gill Furniss voted to require public authorities to act in accordance with the following principles in relation to the environment: preventative action to avert damage; the precautionary principle; rectifying damage at source and "polluter pays". Show vote

  This vote is also related to:

  • measures to prevent climate change
  • improving air quality
  • improving environmental water quality
• On 26 Jan 2021: Gill Furniss voted to have a target to halt and begin to reverse the decline in the state of nature in England as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than 2030. Show vote

Minor votes

• On 20 Oct 2021: Gill Furniss voted to only empower ministers to make regulations relating to habits if those regulations improved habitats or were securing compliance with an international environmental obligation. Show vote
• On 26 May 2021: Gill Furniss voted to require the production of a Tree Strategy for England, including targets for fraction of the country covered by trees, new tree planting and the fraction of woodland in favourable ecological condition. Show vote