Lancing Business Park meeting with the Department for Business and Trade and launching the new Shoreham High Street Banking Hub! Thursday, 21 March, 2024 It was a busy constituency Friday last week and an early start as I teamed up with Lancing Business Park and medical services firm Eschmann to host a business export breakfast. Fortified by some excellent bacon rolls 40 local businesses came along to hear from Department for Business and Trade officials about the support available for firms looking to break into the export market or expand... Local News
Sailability's newly refurbished Sonar at Sussex Yacht Club 3rd March 2018 Delighted to launch Sailability's newly refurbished Sonar at Sussex Yacht Club today - more like a ritual blessing involving flinging champagne at it from the... Local News
Ports Minister Nusrat Ghani visit Shoreham Harbour 2nd March 2018 Last Friday I was delighted to welcome the new Ports Minister and Sussex colleague Nusrat Ghani to Shoreham Harbour to meet Chief Executive Rodney Lunn and the... Local News
Herald Column March 1st 2018 2nd March 2018 At the end of last week I spent a few days at the United Nations in New York as part of an assembly of international Parliamentarians. In the little we got to... Articles
Cold Weather Payments 1st March 2018 During periods of very cold weather, payments are made by the Government to help people pay for extra heating costs. People in receipt of certain benefits may... Articles
NSPCC's 'Are You There?' reception 28th February 2018 1 in 10 children has some form of mental health condition. The government has pledged to make sure these children get the right support early on. But we must... Westminster News
PMQs - Train Compensation 28th February 2018 At Prime Minister's Questions, I asked the Prime Minister why train operating companies should benefit financial from failing to deliver a decent service when... Speeches in Parliament
Tim Loughton MP attends launch of report finding that social media companies are ‘failing young people’ on cyberbullying 27th February 2018 On Monday 26th February Tim Loughton MP [East Worthing & Shoreham], attended the Parliamentary launch of a report, Safety Net, which looks into the impact of... Westminster News
Winter train delays and compensation 27th February 2018 I have often before drawn attention to the fact that Network Rail regularly pays out £000m's to train operating companies (TOCs), such as Southern, as a result... Westminster News
£220m to support the mental health of our troops 26th February 2018 Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has pledged to increase funding for Armed Forces mental health services to £220-million over the next decade and launched the... Westminster News