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Crawley Member of Parliament, Peter Lamb, has welcomed the Government’s announcement that the Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund will deliver £102m in upgrades to over a thousand GP surgeries across England, including in Crawley. Locally, Furnace Green GP Surgery will benefit from the scheme, which exists to create additional space in existing buildings to…
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After over a decade of regulatory failure allowed record levels of illegal sewage dumping into England’s rivers, lakes and seas, since last July the Government has spearheaded the largest increase in action against water companies in history. In the year preceding 2024, sewage was pumped into Crawley’s waterways 66 times, equating to 34 days of…
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It’s a matter of national security, the land has to be cleansed of its population. It began with limiting movement and making the area increasingly unliveable, it ended with rounding up people, gassing pets, and forced deportation to a land of another language, culture and history. The Foreign Office was clear, no ‘Tarzans’, no ‘man…
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Young people in Crawley are among those set to benefit from the tens of thousands of new training opportunities across England as part of a radical skills revolution, giving them the chance to develop skills where they are most needed across the workforce to rebuild Britain. More skilled brickies, carpenters and healthcare support workers will…
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For thirty years, Crawley has played host to immigration removal centres. These have been subject to scandal and public inquiry. I raises with ministers the need to bring an end to people being held there indefinitely and other changes proposed by the Home Affairs Select Committee.
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Yesterday the deal was signed. I accept ministers did so believing it to be in the UK’s national security interests, but it again denies the Chagossian people their right to self-determination and I pressed them on this point.
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Since I first met with the Chagossian people in Crawley 17 years ago and became aware of the historic and ongoing injustices that they face, I have tried to play a role in addressing the needs of the community and undoing the wrong done to them sixty years ago. The expulsion of Chagossians from the…
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The plan, backed by local MP Peter Lamb, will see school mental health support increase to cover an extra 900,000 more pupils this year and ensure that the 500 schools with weakest attendance and poor behaviour receive new intensive support, as the Government strives to raise pupil attendances by 3.1m more days each year. Following…
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Rail capacity through East Croydon will have been exhausted by 2030. I’m working with other MPs to campaign for the works needed to ensure Crawley’s rail users can still travel freely to London by train.
Peter Lamb for Crawley 