Lobbying for climate action & funding

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Dear King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council,

Please treat this as a Freedom of Information/Environmental Information Regulations request.

I would like information about your council’s lobbying work in relation to climate action for the Council Climate Action Scorecards.

In particular, please supply me with information relating to the following question:

Has the council written to or met with UK national or devolved governments to ask or lobby for climate action since 1st January 2019? Please provide some evidence of the most recent letter or meeting such as a copy of the letter or email sent, or the date, topic of meeting and position of the person that the meeting was held with.

This includes either asking for more powers and funding for local authorities to take climate action, or asking for the government to take further action themselves. This includes working with other local authorities to send joint letters or meetings to lobby UK or devolved governments, and includes both general climate action and calls for action on specific issues such as transport where climate change is mentioned as a motivating factor for taking action.

This includes if a cabinet member or other councillor has written to or met with the UK or devolved governments on behalf of the council.

I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours faithfully,

Hannah Jewell, Climate Emergency UK

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Kaleb Raby,

Dear Ms. Jewell,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 and/or ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
REGULATIONS 2004 - INFORMATION REQUEST
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Thank you for your request for information.

The information you requested is enclosed below.

We have engaged with the Government's decarbonisation funding to take
forward schemes and the council featured in national comms on this project
for COP26. We are a member of the Norfolk Climate Change Partnership
(NCCP) which aims to work collectively with other Norfolk local
authorities, sharing best practice. We engage on New Anglia Local
Enterprise Partnership's Clean Growth Group and the LGA Regional Climate
Change Forum. We participated in the East of England subgroup for the
Lowland Peat Strategy which made recommendations to ministers on peat,
some of these recommendations have been addressed in the recently
published Environmental Improvement Plan.

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Yours sincerely

Kaleb Raby
Legal Services Apprentice
Borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Kaleb​ Raby
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