The first piece in a mini-series on climate change, COP26 and the environment on ConservativeHome this week.
Eustice should start by creating an ‘Office for Natural Statistics’, to sit within DEFRA and co-ordinate data collection in a way never done before.
Nick Boles was a great planning minister. Now Brandon Lewis has the chance to continue his work with housing in the same brief – where it should be.
Mutualised planning teams could develop and sell world-leading expertise, for example in heritage, or rural, or high-rise, or low-energy development.
MPs tend to think no further ahead than the next election – which won’t do.
A recent report launching a new coalition explains why we need new technologies that will deliver these at scale.