I am delighted that the Government has responded to my calls for more funding for North Yorkshire by allocating an extra £19 million for 2019-20 to help pay for local government services.

I am delighted to pledge my support to a national recruitment campaign by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), to address the 110,000 vacancies in adult social care across England.

I welcome today’s Government announcement that a single devolution deal for the whole of Yorkshire, known as One Yorkshire, has been rejected.

I am delighted that TransPennine Express is allocating funds to provide a new ticket office, waiting room and accessible toilet at Malton Station.

Today I am encouraging local charities and good causes to apply for over £3 million of funding raised by the players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

I have today welcomed the calls for a near-doubling of transport investment over the next 30 years. Transport for the North’s wide-ranging and ambitious plans for the North include a total of between £100 billion and £120 billion to be committed over the next 30 years.

For the first time in this difficult process, the Conservative Party has rallied round a single position; that the Prime Minister should return to Brussels to renegotiate the Irish Protocol, or backstop. Virtually every Conservative MP united behind Sir Graham Brady’s amendment which calls for “a

The APPG on Fair Business Banking, has this week hosted the UK launch of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative’s (UNEP FI) ‘Principles for Responsible Banking’, which provides the banking industry with a framework to align its business strategy with society’s goals, which in

I have written to local doctors surgeries to urge them to make maximum use of Dementia Advice Clinics run by Alzheimer’s Society. The service offers appropriate and timely support, guidance and advice to people affected by dementia or worried about their memory.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, Amber Rudd MP, has agreed to look again at the system of payments for Universal Credit (UC) following a meeting I had with her in Westminster.