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Defending the roll-out of Universal Credit

I spoke in favour of the continued roll-out of Universal Credit, the Government's simplification of the benefits system which aims to help people back into work.

Rishi Sunak helps schoolchildren become Internet Legends

Richmond MP Rishi Sunak took part in a special school assembly held to teach children to use the internet safely and responsibly. Mr Sunak joined a team from Google in a presentation at Broomfield Primary School, Northallerton, which used video, music and participation to show how the internet can

Rishi Sunak joins walkers to raise awareness of dementia

Campaigners put their best foot forward to raise awareness of the impact of dementia and raise money while doing so. Fifty-seven people – including Richmond MP Rishi Sunak - took part in the second Northallerton Memory Walk which was one of many held around the country to benefit the Alzheimer's So

Rishi Sunak MP leads storytime at Bedale Community Library

Toddlers enjoyed a storytime session with their MP at Bedale Community Library. Rishi Sunak, MP for Richmond, kept a longstanding promise to read to youngsters at the library which became a volunteer-run community library in Bedale Hall earlier this year. Mr Sunak read a series of favourites inclu

D&S column: keeping emergency care services at the Friarage

I make no apology for returning to a subject which has already featured many times in this column: the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. Just two weeks ago I wrote about its special qualities and its importance to all of us who live in this part of the world.

Rishi Sunak urges constituents to take part in Friarage discussions

Richmond MP Rishi Sunak has urged his constituents to join a conversation about the future of emergency care services at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton. The MP, whose constituency covers the area served by the Northallerton hospital, says if people care about their local hospital they must ge

Rishi Sunak welcomes start of work on £10m Friarage cancer centre

Rishi Sunak joined a celebration to mark the start of building work on the £10m Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. The annual Macmillan Cancer Support charity event this year coincided with construction getting u

D&S column: just two cheers for part-opening of upgraded A1

I confess that I could only give two cheers to last week’s announcement that part of the upgraded A1 between Leeming and Barton was to finally open. On the face of it the lifting of the 50mph speed and removal of the dreaded cones on the stretch up to Catterick was very good news, signalling the be

Rishi Sunak seeks more assurances about planned mental health service changes

Health chiefs have provided details of the new community health services that would replace wards at the Friarage Hospital, if a proposed re-organisation goes ahead. In response to a letter from Richmond MP Rishi Sunak, the chief executive of the health trust which provides mental health services i