I have backed proposed changes in law to tackle the people smugglers and criminal gangs behind the English Channel small boats crisis.
I have supported an amendment to the Online Safety Bill tabled by my Conservative colleague, Natalie Elphicke, the MP for Dover.
There was a major win this week on the Levelling Up Bill currently going through Parliament with the announcement that following pressure from a large number of Conservative MPs, including me, the Government is dropping mandatory housebuilding targets.
I have been sent an update on the planned works on the A27 east of Lancing to construct a new signalised roundabout providing a link to the New Monks Farm development and Brighton City Airport.
I have summarised the planned works and the schedule below –
The A27 works have been planned in seven co
Together with local councillors I will be helping out the Christmas appeal by the Fishersgate Community Hub brilliantly led by the tireless Jill Lennon.
I seem to have made headlines with my recent question to the Home Secretary.
On 23 November I asked Suella Braverman MP a question about safe and legal routes for asylum seekers to come to the UK.
If I wasn’t feeling Christmassy at the start of a busy constituency day on Saturday, given the mild weather and fact that it is only November, I certainly was by the end of it, having opened the Rotary Christmas fair at the Shoreham Centre and then joined the masses at the Lancing Christmas market.
Last year the Boundary Commission published its initial proposals for changes to the parliamentary boundaries in England & Wales as it is obliged to do every 10 years or so.
It was great to visit Glebe School in Southwick on Friday and be grilled by a very enthusiastic group of Year 4 pupils on all things environmental and the EYE Project, following a very impressive set of letters about protecting the sea that they all sent me earlier in the year.
