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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.
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With the crisis in rental costs leaving hundreds of local families living in temporary accommodation, I’m pressing ministers on the need to increase the Local Housing Allowance, to get people housed.
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Today we celebrate 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. I know that it will mean different things to different people, not least for the last of that great generation who faced down the Nazi threat first-hand. Many will be thinking of loved ones. I will be remembering my Grandad,…
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Tonight Crawley Borough Council are meeting to decide the council’s response to the Government’s proposed reorganisation of local government in our area. This submission isn’t the final decision as to what will happen in our area, nor is CBC the only organisation making a submission, it all forms part of a process for deciding how…
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I don’t envy the frontbench. They inherited an appalling economic legacy, with public debt at almost 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a bond market traumatised by Liz Truss, and potentially a global trade war. At the same time, after 14 years of Austerity public services are desperate for investment, and households continue to struggle…
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The Food Foundation are working to transform UK food policy. I was grateful to have the chance to discuss my Private Member’s Bill with them on their latest podcast looking at the case for free school meal auto-enrolment.
