Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, last week supported the passage of the Pet Abduction Bill to the Report Stage in Parliament. The Pet Abduction Bill will make dog and cat abduction a specific offence and make provisions against the abduction of other animals commonly kept as pets.
Legislation to tackle livestock worrying has completed its Second Reading in Parliament following high-profile support from Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset. Mr Loder has spoken publicly of the need ‘for action against the suffering of animals as a result of careless or negligent dog owners’.
Chris Loder MP recently met with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, to drive home the reality for rural residents in West Dorset. The meeting built on an earlier exchange Mr Loder had with the Chancellor in September.
Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, is pushing ahead with his mission to resolve nutrient neutrality issues in the county to unlock modest housebuilding development and solve environmental concerns.
Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, paid tribute to the millions of lives lost to genocide at Dorchester’s Holocaust Memorial Day on the 27th January. The theme of the event this year was the ‘Fragility of Freedom’.
Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, has welcomed a group of investments for a significant number of water treatment and sewage outflow sites in West Dorset to tackle the dumping of raw sewage following votes for action on the issue with the Environment Bill votes in late 2021.
The health and ecological status of the River Lim in Lyme Regis has once again been probed by Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, at a summit last Monday with South West Water’s CEO, Susan Davy.
Additional measures worth £600 million have been secured for rural councils across England following MP Chris Loder’s high-profile campaign. The MP for West Dorset led the charge for fairness and reform when it comes to the allocation and calculation of local government funding.
Chris Loder, MP for West Dorset, joined officers from the Neighbourhood Policing Team and the Force Support Group on a drug raid at two addresses in Bridport on the 24th January. The local MP witnessed first-hand a warrant at an address in Gore Cross Way and Doctor Roberts Close.
