Today I showed my support for WWF’s campaign to end the illegal wildlife trade by attending a charity event in the Houses of Parliament to celebrate China’s ivory ban, which came in to force this month.
I headed over to Noak Hill this afternoon to celebrate the completion of grant funded works at the Noak Hill Victory Hall. The hall had been only patch repaired since its rebuild in 1949, following its destruction by the last V2 bomb to fall in Havering.
Today I committed my support to a new campaign asking for national minimum standards for taxi and private hire licensing in order to improve the safety of passengers, particularly women travelling on their own.
First Step in Hornchurch provides many fantastic services to local families affected by autism, learning disabilities and other special needs, and my team and I visited the team there to see their facilities and to speak to parents.
After securing 60pc of the vote, and a majority of more than 17,000, Julia Lopez was elected as Hornchurch and Upminster’s new MP at the 2017 General Election. Since then, Ms Lopez has been busy with balancing her time between Westminster, and her constituency office in the borough.
Today the team and I visited the Coopers' Company and Coborn School in Upminster to meet Nick, the school's STEM lead. Nick is pioneering an ambitious, inspirational plan to make Havering a leading place for science, engineering and tech learning.
Today, Andrew Rosindell and I took Havering’s Leader, Cllr Roger Ramsey and Chief Executive, Andrew Blake-Herbert, to meet new Local Government Minister, Rishi Sunak, and highlight to him the borough’s raw deal when it comes to our grant from central government.
Back in July, I was contacted by the Minister’s team to advise me that after a six month consultation, the Jobcentre in Hornchurch would be closed and the team moved into the Romford Jobcentre. This was part of the DWP’s plan to make its Jobcentre service more efficient.
I made the following contribution to a debate on the Disability Confident Programme, tabled by my Scottish Conservative colleague, Luke Graham. I took the opportunity to raise two constituency cases of young, talented jobseekers with autism.
I made the following contribution to the Trade Bill which is intended to enable the UK to replicate current trade agreements that the UK is party to as a member of the European Union, following Brexit. It would also set up a Trade Remedies Authority to advise the Government on trade disputes.
