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:

1. 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.

Relating specifically to climate action, since January 2019 the below responses have been submitted, with the documentation for each of these attached.

• 23/03/2018: New London Plan (covering green belt, waste, sustainability, Noise and Air Pollution)
• 18/12/2019: Future homes standard (covering heating efficiency and retrofitting)
• 07/2020: OLEV (covering ban on sale of petrol and diesel cars)
• 23/03/2022: DEFRA Biodiversity net gain regulations
• 17/10/2022: Climate and Ecology Bill
• 12/2022: Local Electricity Bill (covering renewable electricity generation). Letters were sent by our Chief Executive Officer and Leader of the Council to our 4 MPs and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.