John Howell OBE is the Member of Parliament for Henley. The recent IMF scorecard on the British economy, produced two years into this Coalition, prompted me to take a look at the comments the IMF made in 1976, two years into a Labour government. At that time, the then-Chancellor, Denis Healey, had to go cap in […]
Greg Clark MP is Minister for Decentralisation and Cities and John Howell MP is his PPS and the principal author of Open Source Planning. Yesterday the Government published the final version of the National Planning Policy Framework following last year’s public consultation. Taken together with the important changes introduced in the Localism Act, this amounts […]
John Howell OBE is MP for Henley and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the House, Sir George Young. If you want an idea of what the concerns of Conservative MPs are there is no better snap-shot than the nature of the questions raised each Thursday in response to the statement by the Leader […]
John Howell is MP for Henley, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Greg Clark, the Minister for Decentralisation and Localism, and is the principal author of Open Source Planning. There is no necessary contradiction between increased levels of development and protecting and enhancing the environment, as long as development is planned and undertaken responsibly. Providing for the future […]
John Howell is MP for Henley and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Greg Clark, the Minister for Decentralisation and Localism. Only a radical approach will produce the planning system we need to take the country forward and today we have the chance in the Localism Bill to deliver a planning system which is fairer, simpler, genuinely […]
Cllr Dr. John M Howell OBE, Cabinet Member of Oxfordshire County Council, warns that the Greens are more of a threat than is realised – to Conservatives and to scientific progress. Here’s a question for you.What do Berinsfield Ward in Oxfordshire and Forest Row Ward in the depths of Sussex have in common? First, […]
John Howell OBE is the Member of Parliament for Henley. My wife and I have just celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary this summer, so I don’t need convincing that marriage is a good thing. So, I am left perplexed as to why a change in civil marriage such as this which, important though it is, will […]