In a Westminster Hall Debate, Theo Clarke MP for Stafford, highlighted that Stafford is leading the way with the nation’s first eco post to monitor air quality. This eco post was developed by a local business and installed by Stafford Borough Council. This demonstrates how COP26 is important in helping us to reach net zero, improve the environment and create jobs.
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Theo Clarke MP for Stafford:
“I absolutely agree that it is a fundamental right to breathe clean air. Stafford Borough Council has installed the first eco-post in the country to monitor air quality. Does my right hon. Friend agree, following COP26, with the journey to net zero, that it is important to invest in air monitoring in our constituencies?”
Maria Miller MP for Basingstoke:
“My hon. Friend makes a good point, and she brings me to the importance of practical initiatives that the hon. Member for Huddersfield touched on in his contribution. It is important that the Government are committing money and making laws and that the strategic framework is there, but unless the initiative is taken on the ground by local authorities and others, those good intentions will be for nothing.”
Jo Churchill MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs:
“Indeed, we have heard about the beneficial work being done in both Basingstoke and Stafford on these issues, to help to empower communities to have better air quality.”
