A1: Electricity generation policy update - removing nuclear prohibition along other changes. Makes a good case for nuclear but undersells improvements in battery technology, ignoring direction of movement over time. 4

A2: Save Hospitality - reduction in NIC, business rates, VAT for small local businesses, which are in recession. \~£13.5Bn 3

A3: Zionism is Racism - 8 points, which are mostly reasonable but there has been a sustained failure to engage with Jewish Greens and the policy on a one-state solution is not necessarily backed by a majority in Palestine. 2

A4: Fair Shares - To Tackle the Climate Emergency - a carbon tax will effectively curb consumption for poorer people, while leaving rich people free to consume, which breeds enmity and inequality. Motion proposes rationing instead - flight, fuel and animal products. Experience during WWII showed that people are much more willing to sacrifice if they believe everyone is sacrificing, unlike when rationing was introduced at the very end of WWI. People's health actually got better during the war, excluding people directly affected by it. 5

A5: Domestic Abuse as a Workplace Safety Issue (Protecting Public Sector Workers) - several measures to support and protect people experiencing and fleeing domestic abuse, particularly workers in public sector employment, for example with a central fund to pay for emergency accommodation and a special officer with authority to transfer the worker to a different workplace in another location. 4

A6: Strengthening the Equality Act (2010) - significant additions to the protected characteristics - class, gender identity, neurodivergence, home situation, menopause, etc. Redefining sex, protected beliefs. Some points may need to be reformulated to avoid unintended consequences. 4

A7: Menstrual cycle leave for workers - 3 days leave per month for workers who menstruate. 3

A8: Tax the Gender Pay Gap - companies required to report their gender pay gap would pay higher rates of corporation tax if the gap is more than 1.5x average. 3

A9 Agriculture and Climate - small expansion of reduction of animal agriculture focused on nitrogen in fertiliser. 3

A10 Phosphorus in Agriculture - further reductions in phosphorus and other environmental changes 3

A12 Oppose Gender-Based Blanket Bans in Sport - calling for full inclusion in sport, applying equality act to defend trans people from discrimination, calling for evidence to support exclusion and inquiry into effects on trans and intersex people. 4

A13 Constitution Cleanup and Reduce Conference Filibustering - big policy omnibus - 1. Tighter regulation of fast tracking. 2. Increasing support needed for motions. 3. Increasing threshold of membership ballot from ½ to ⅔. 4. Significantly reduce duration of nomination and voting periods. AGM moved to before nominations. 5. SOC increase 5 to 7. 6. Changes to disputes referral group. 7. Top-up seats in needed for regional representation on GPC. 8. Increase term lengths. 9. Enlarging committees such as campaigns committee. 10. Increasing disciplinary committee from 22 to 32 members. 11. Reduce conflicts of interest. 12. VONC process. 4

A14 A Socialist Policy Platform - adds a democratic socialist declaration to Philosophical Basis. 3

A15 A Nationalised Public Housing Builder - author is experienced in planning but details are very light. 2

A16 Abolish the EHRC: Rewrite the Equalities Act for Voter Accountable Commissions - EHRC is compromised by appointment process and annual funding mechanism. Also covers HoL reform. Not sure why these are the same motion. 2

A17 Transport and Climate - setting numerical targets for tensor emissions reductions. 3

A18 Carbon Pricing Policy Update - several changes, including maintaining and expanding existing carbon mechanisms, rather than a single carbon tax, changes to carbon trading with EU. Finally, makes amendments to 2024 manifesto. 3

A19 Applying BDS internally in the green party - text as yet unpublished.

A20 Policy process clarity in SOCC

A21 Policy process clarity in the Constitution

A22 Standing Orders for Party Governance

A23 Training within the Party

A24 Making policy public

A25 UK Music Artists to retain Streaming & Sales Royalties - BBC to set up streaming service, paid for by licence fee in UK, subscription service to raise money internationally. 3

A27 The party to implement improvements based on Unite the Unions internal audit of Green Party workplace culture

A28 Support for the Basic Income for Farmers Campaign - UBI for farm workers, as farming induced are inherently unpredictable and precarious. Seeks to improve attraction and retention of new farmers and address poor mental health. 4

A29 Crime and Justice Voting Paper - Part 1 - major changes to this area. Policy will be updated 9th July.

A30 Enabling Motion - Continuing the Crime and Justice Voting Paper - enables pwg to remain working. 5

A31 Crown Estate Land - reverts policy back from what was in last manifesto - public management rather than ownership of crown estate land. All land has to be stewarded responsibly according to set rules. 3

A32 Land - strengthening accountability - small changes regarding land stewardship and upholding standards. 3

A33 SOCC: Policy process revisions - assorted changes to policy development and conference. Raising expected standard of motions to re: consultation and evidence. 3

A34 Embed Policy Fest as a role of PDC - ensuring two policy fests each year. 4

A35 Revert 2025/D05: Change the Governance Structures of the party - the motion claims negative consequences of D05 without stating what those are. D05 was not contentious at the time it passed. May be better to address the problems specifically rather than revert. 2

A36 Stop Destroying Video Games - requires game producers to allow players to host the games they sell after the producer ceases to provide the service. 4

A37 Reintroduce lynx for nature and people - reintroducing lynx in northern England. 72% of Kielder Forest residents support. Increase tourism, balance ecosystem. 3

A38 Councillors to apply BDS for Palestine in councils - mainly focused on Local Government Pension Schemes, as these handle £400bn, maybe £12bn of which is complicit. 5

A39 Change the Party’s Disputes and Complaints Process - a long motion I'm not quite ready to take on.

A40 Transparency from Leadership through Meeting Minutes - a requirement for GPEx, SOC and Council to publish minutes via the website, which perhaps they should already be doing. 4

A41 The Standing of Spring Conference - make Spring Conference an annual conference, which means it's able to call an extraordinary conference to settle business not addressed at the Spring Conference itself. 4

A42 The Standing of Spring Conference: Votes of No Confidence -limiting vonc to 10% of members present or 50 people, whichever is greater. 4

A43 Ensuring democratic oversight of party wide ballots - SOC claims its constitution needs to change to allow for membership ballots. I don't know.

A45 Public Service Digital Spaces - proposes feasibility study into an interoperable, independent digital sovereign service. 4

A46 Updated AR412 to include 'plant-based' and promotion in the public sector - "plant based", while rather misleading, may be a useful way of influencing people to consume fewer animal products. Need to legally define vegan, plant based and vegetarian in Equality Act, make such food and products available in all public services. Bin the requirement for schools to provide meat 3 days a week. 5

A47 Wildlife Management update - Elucidation of policy on managing so-called pests. 3

A49 Gender Inclusive Campaign Against Domestic and Sexual Abuse - changing language to make clear that this abuse affects people of all backgrounds. 4

A50 Clarify Core Values - rewriting of core values. Will check to see if this is further explained later.

Summary of motions to Autumn Conference (Work in Progress)