Good news! The British Business Bank have recently launched their £400 million Midlands Engine Investment Fund II to help smaller businesses thrive across the Midlands.
Centrica have just opened a fund offering £100,000 grants for net-zero projects in the Midlands, which could help organisations in Corby & East Northamptonshire to develop their ideas to tackle climate change, bring down energy bills, and deliver a real impact to communities in our area.
My further thoughts on the Government's recent extra pothole repairs funding announcement - totalling a very substantial £62,450,000 from 2023/24 to 2033/34. A key issue locally and very welcome news, having really pressed Ministers hard for extra cash for our area.
Here in Corby & East Northamptonshire, we’ve recently been awarded Homelessness Funding as part of a wider Government homelessness application process.
National Highways have been in touch to let me know that essential maintenance works are due to be carried out on the A14 from Junctions 12 to 13 starting on the 22nd April for completion at the end of July this year.
I was pleased to visit Whitworths in Irthlingborough recently, to learn more about ‘Mission Nutrition’ - a project they have commissioned to review the nation’s health and which aims to improve nutritional education for young people, and to help highlight the health benefits of including dried fr
As part of the Government’s plan to deliver a brighter economic future for Britain, we’re reaffirming our commitment to small businesses by setting up a new Small Business Council and the 'Help to Grow Plan'.
People locally often ask me about my ministerial role in the Government as the Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border at the Home Office - a role which reflects a real priority issue for local people and indeed nationally.
It was a pleasure to attend a fantastic reimagined youth production of ‘First Encounters: Romeo & Juliet’ by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), at the Core at Corby Cube recently, and to meet some representatives from the RSC to hear about how they are making Shakespeare more accessible to
My latest Westminster Report newsletter has just landed in inboxes, filled with lots of interesting news and updates from across Corby & East Northamptonshire and my work in Westminster.
