I have today joined forces with the rail industry to encourage more disabled people in Thirsk and Malton to travel by train using the Disabled Persons Railcard, which offers a third off journeys.
I was delighted to welcome a group of 53 pupils from Pickering school to Westminster today along with some of their teachers. It’s a great privilege for me to show them my place of work.
Along with four Yorkshire MPs, I have written to Highways England to express our “grave concerns” about its assessment of the need and value for money of a proposed dual carriageway between Hopgrove and Barton Hill.
Please click on the link below to access the latest update on General Licences for Controlling Wild Birds from the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
I welcome the news that eight banks and building societies (PSPs) have signed up to a new voluntary code (the Code) designed to tackle authorised push payment (APP) scams which will offer increased protection to their customers from fraud and the use of stolen money by criminal gangs.
I was delighted to have been invited to meet pupils at Malton Community Primary School to hear about their studies into how Malton has changed since the Industrial revolution.
I was honoured to have hosted a reception in Parliament to mark the restoration and conversion to five-star hotel of the 18th century Grantley Hall near Ripon.
I am delighted that the Government is launching an inquiry into how family courts protect children and parents in cases of domestic abuse and other serious offences following a letter I co-signed to the Secretary of State for Justice.
