Sian Berry MP
Sian Berry MP

Publications

My recent letters and publications as a local MP and pushing the Government nationally to change policies.

  • Successes from work on the Devolution Bill – my letter to ministers on the remaining need for duties for new Mayors
    My work on the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill won some success. The Government made changes based on my amendments during committee stage that added access to clean air and green spaces to the work new Mayors must do on health, and also helped save councils that use more collaborative committee systems of governance from having to change to top-down leader and cabinet models. I am very pleased to have won these changes and my letter thanks minister Miatta Fahnbulleh for listening to the evidence and to the campaigners and local councillors I worked with on these issues. However,
  • Letter regarding statutory guidance from the Equality Human Rights Commission
    The statutory guidance issued by the EHRC is misleading in nature and its proposed wording has already caused significant confusion and distress to my trans and non-binary constituents. I have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities asking her to reject it.
  • A response from Emma Reynolds MP to my letter about Lifetime ISA withdrawal charges
    On 3 July 2025, I wrote to Emma Reynolds MP Economic Undersecretary to the Treasury about Lifetime ISA (LISA) withdrawal charges and the £450,000 LISA price cap. The full response:
  • All Our Children: Manifesto for a universal early years future
    Siân and former leader of the Women’s Equality Party, Mandu Reid, set out the case for a future withuniversal childcare, provided free at the point of use, for every child and parent. If it takes a village to raise a child, then the welfare and ability to thrive of all our children is the responsibility of all of us to get right. The interviews for the case studies included in the report were carried out by Verena Schneider.
  • A response to my Question To Solicitor General On Non-Violent Drug Offences
    A response to a question I asked during Solicitor General’s Questions on Non – Violent Drug Offences and safe drug consumption facilities