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A Labour Government would roll out breakfast clubs to every primary school in England, providing access to fully-funded childcare and a healthy meal for every child. Currently 569,731 primary school pupils in Crawley’s region have limited access to breakfast clubs, according to the Party’s analysis. 78% of primary schools in the South East have “barriers”…
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The Tories are failing to keep local communities safe, with shocking new analysis revealing huge reductions in staffing for neighbourhood policing in the South East. The number of PCSOs across the South East has collapsed by 43% since 2010. At the same time, the most recent crime statistics show a 42% increase in reported robbery…
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Analysis from Crawley Labour Party has found that West Sussex County Council–Crawley’s Public Health Authority–has lost £5.82m in funding for local public health services over the last five years, which equates to a cut of 13.8% per cent, or 18.7% per person. Cuts to West Sussex’s public health budget has meant that public health teams…
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After 13 years of Austerity, the list of areas desperately in need of investment is long and getting longer. As the party of public services, the Labour Party is of course desperate to get to work undoing the damage, but not unreasonably people will want to know where the money will come from. The party…
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County councillors are meeting today to set the council’s budget for 2023/24. While this May will mark six years since I decided to step down as a county councillor, I continue to run through their budget each year and I believe there are two big reasons why every Crawley resident should also take an interest.…
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Earlier this month the Centre for Cities, the leading thinktank on UK urban areas, released their latest annual review of UK cities: Cities Outlook 2023. While the difference between a city and a town in the UK is essentially arbitrary, the Centre for Cities essentially determines cities by their the size of their economy, meaning…
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New analysis reveals the Tories’ wholescale failure to grow the economy and to level up Britain, with figures showing that in every region in Great Britain real wages are lower now than when the Tories came to power in 2010. Across the country as a whole, real wages are down by an average of 5%,…
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The 2021 Census took some time to be released, an extra year in fact if my recollection of the 2011 Census is correct. Some of this simply reflects the difficulty of the task they faced trying to produce an accurate picture of the UK for the next decade while the country was in lockdown, but…
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With fares set to increase by 5.9% on 5th March, Crawley commuters will now be paying £1,623 more for a season ticket to London than they were under the last Labour Government. While the planned increase is below current rates of inflation, years of inflation-busting increases mean that the price of a Three Bridges to…
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After several U-turns, the Government has finally published their proposals for delivering on the 2019 Conservative Manifesto commitment to end no fault evictions, unfortunately they fall far short of what is really needed. Under s21 of the Housing Act 1988, landlords are able to regain possession of properties without establishing any fault on the part…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 