Tim Loughton MP is backing apprenticeships in East Worthing and Shoreham and has joined a campaign to spread awareness of the opportunities that apprenticeships offer to both young people and businesses. 

With Rio 2016 looming large on the horizon, local MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, Tim Loughton is hoping to steal a march on the country's Olympic heroes by scooping an early gold medal in this year's Rehab Parliamentary Pancake Race at the Houses of Parliament. 

One of the big issues that is going to dominate the political news this year is the looming referendum on our membership of the European Union.

Tim Loughton MP has welcomed new figures showing 275,000 more people in work across South East since the last Labour Government and a record level of employment across the UK as a whole – with over 2.2 million more people enjoying the security of a job than in 2010.

This podcast is an update on one I produced a few weeks ago on the issue of WASPI - Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign and how women born in the 1950s were going to be disproportionately affected by State Pension age equalisation.

In this video I talk about pensions, in particular women's pensions and the WASPI campaign. 

After a great deal of thought, I decided to vote in favour of extending military action into Syria. It was my own decision and I did not do so out of slavishly supporting the Prime Minister. I thought long and hard about it and voted with my conscience. Every step of the way I have made my views known and accountable to you, the public.

Three months on from that terrible accident I hope that the memorial service succeeded in providing a fitting and respectful tribute to the eleven men whose lives were so cruelly cut short.

This afternoon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, delivered the Autumn Statement 2015 and explained the decisions he had taken following the Comprehensive Spending Review. Please do watch my podcast for an in-depth look at today’s announcements.

This morning in the Commons, I chaired the launch of the Children Commissioner's report on child sexual abuse.