Last year as part of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, cross-party P4P Peers made the case for a very specific and practical change to improve consumer rights: having visibility as to how the rights that come with our savings are being used. When pension schemes or other savers invest in company shares, these confer rights to vote at the AGMs of those companies and any resolutions tabled by shareholders - for example, in relation to reporting climate risk a

A roundtable convened by Peers for the Planet and supported by Friends Provident brought together new economy experts - an emerging...

Although Parliament has now been dissolved, following the calling of an election for 4th July, peers remained active up to prorogation on efforts to improve a number of Bills before the House. One of those Bills – which has since fallen – was the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, originally promised by Government to curb country-specific boycotts by public bodies. Whilst the reach of the Bill went much wider than environmental concerns, peers table