My record on environmental issues | Letter

Conservative parliamentary candidate Jesse Norman responds to the Guardian's climate score articleYour article (Guardian climate score: how did your MP do?, 11 October) notes that "the approach used has certain limitations". In fact it is massively flawed in its methods, and misleading and partial as a result. It takes just 16 climate-, energy- and environment-related votes in parliament among hundreds cast between 2008 and 2018, and adds a narrative based on the register of MPs' interests.But not all votes are the same, and many of these issues are highly contested. The landlord energy efficiency vote, for example, was on just one of many amendments to the 2011 energy bill, and reasonable people can (and did) disagree about its likely effect. Yet the climate score includes it, and yet somehow ignores the energy bill itself, a major piece of environmental legislation. Continue reading...