GP SURGERY UPDATE Wednesday, 24 April, 2024 Yesterday a group of Gloucestershire MPs met Health Secretary Victoria Atkins to discuss the funding of GP surgeries following correspondence from a number of them. We made a number of suggestions and requests and the Health Secretary has said she will consider them. We will continue to work with her and with our local GP surgeries to help them improve appointment times and patient care. Westminster News
Queen's Speech 15th October 2019 Yesterday’s Queen’s Speech set out how Boris Johnson and the Conservatives will get Brexit done and focus on the people's priorities. This government have... Westminster News
Extra Police Officers For Gloucestershire 9th October 2019 I welcome the announcement of 46 extra police officers for Gloucestershire as part of the government’s policy of recruiting an extra 20,000 officers across the... Local News
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A417 programme of public consultation events 19th September 2019 Gloucester Rugby Club , Kingsholm Rd, Gloucester, GL1 3AX Monday 30 September 2pm – 8pm National Star College , Ullenwood, GL53 9QU Thursday 3 October 2pm – 8pm... Articles
A417 Missing Link 18th September 2019 Following the Secretary of State for Transport’s confirmation that the A417 Missing Link proposed scheme can go out to public consultation, Highways England... Articles
Cheltenham A&E 19th August 2019 Recently, Health managers stated that there were no plans to close Cheltenham’s A&E “in September”. That is good news of course, but we need confirmation of... Articles
Excellent Employment Figures 14th August 2019 In the last few days we have seen reports of record number of people (32.81m) in work: This includes a record number of women in work and a record number of... Local News
Trade Deals with the USA 14th August 2019 It is very encouraging that the USA has said that they very much want to do trade deals with the UK when we leave the EU, probably sector by sector to start... Westminster News
New Dowty Propellers factory 14th August 2019 I am very pleased that the aerospace manufacturer Dowty Propellers has announced that it is building a new propeller factory in the constituency. Having a... Local News