The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has four Plenary Session each year. Below is John's Delegation Leader report for the October 2023 session...

A new seminar on Education as a Human Right will take place in the UK Parliament at the House of Lords on15th November. It will be a morning session, held...

The news that the Turkish Supreme Court has confirmed the aggravated life sentence for Osman Kavala has appalled John and his fellow Turkish co-rapporteur of...

Work to eradicate single use plastic took a step forward with new restrictions on the use of a range of single-use plastic items. From 1st October no business...

John welcomes figures that show there are 4050 nuclear jobs in Constituency thanks to Government investment in the nuclear power industry. More jobs are...

Environmental crimes such as littering and fly-tipping are often the subject of concerns raised with John by constituents. John was therefore pleased to receive...

By special invitation John gave the keynote address at the first summer school at the University of Liverpool of the Open Council of Europe Academic Networks...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has four Plenary Session each year. Below is John's Delegation Leader report for the June 2023 session...

In recent months there has been growing concern at the level of storm overflow discharges and much work has been done to look towards reducing this. Following...