Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it stands at c9250 today) then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do…
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Dr Coffey’s reading list (3)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it passed 9000 yesterday) then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do already…
Dr Coffey’s reading list (2)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do already I am providing a reading…
Dr Coffey’s reading list (1)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. In order that she does not make Defra look even more foolish than they do already I am providing a reading…
Dr Coffey – do the right thing
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister in Defra and some time fairly soon will be asked to sign off a government response to Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting assuming that it passes 10,000 signatures (which it will). Dr Coffey closed the debate on grouse shooting almost a year ago in a…
Reply on lead ammunition from Therese Coffey
I wrote to my MP on the subject of lead ammunition back in August. I’m grateful to my MP, Tom Pursglove, for forwarding my letter to Defra and now for sending me the following reply from the Parliamentary Under Secretary, Therese Coffey, as follows; My response to Mr Pursglove is already on its way…
Michael Gove plugging some gaps
He’s no fool and he may be getting better advice these days too: Michael Gove is moving to plug some gaping holes in the Tory wildlife policies. And he’s starting with the animal cruelty issues. It should come as no surprise that a clever politician is doing some of the things that are relatively painless…
Your species champions at Westminster
Westminster MPs have stepped forward to become champions for different endangered species (and a similar scheme exists in Scotland). There is an interesting article about this in the current BBC Wildlife Magazine written by James Fair. I’m quoted in the article and my point is whether these MPs will speak out for their species on…
Trusted Trustees (2) – Richard Benyon MP
Richard Benyon MP is the second in this series of blogs introducing you to the trustees, chairs and patrons of wildlife and environmental charities etc. The idea is to let you know who is running or has a senior, perhaps albeit largely honorary, position in your favourite, or least favourite, charity. The trustees in this…
Writing to your MP
I often encourage people to write to their MPs – in talks, on this blog, in Birdwatch (the October column of which I have just written) and at the weekend’s Bird Fair. Sometimes, in fact quite often, people say that they never get a response from their MP – and that puzzles me as I…