The Prime Minister announced that he is merging the Foreign & Commonwealth Office with the Department for International Development so that the UK’s interests are better protected and that we can better target our aid budget.

Yesterday I asked the George Eustice, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to look into the housing development at Twigworth, which was allowed on appeal in 2017.

It’s important for councils to have a five year land supply in order to protect the area from speculative applications by developers. The problem is that there is no standard methodology for calculating that supply.