WE are blessed in North Yorkshire to have generally excellent schools. Consistently, they outperform the national average in the annual league tables and that’s down to the work of staff and supportive governors and parents.
VILLAGERS have enlisted the support of Rishi to protect their community from devastating flooding. He has agreed to help the Brompton Flood Prevention Group (BFPG) in its efforts to get flood prevention measures implemented.
THE boss of the Government agency responsible for processing millions of pounds of support payments to farmers has pledged to pay promptly following a plea from Rishi. Mark Grimshaw, chief executive of the Rural Payments Agency, was asked by Rishi how he could speed up the payments to farmers facing low prices for their livestock and milk.
In an Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee hearing I press the head of the Rural Payments Agency to make prompt CAP payments to farmers.
WELCOME to this new weekly column in the Darlington & Stockton Times – its aim is to tell you about what I’m doing in Westminster and the constituency. I was immensely privileged to be elected to represent this beautiful part of the world in May and I have a tough act to follow. William Hague was an outstanding local MP and I will have to work incredibly hard to match what he did for the Richmond constituency over so many years.
NORTH Yorkshire businessmen talked to the Prime Minister at a meeting organised by Rishi Sunak.David Hartley, managing director of Wensleydale Dairy Products at Hawes, and Simon Bailes, managing director of Simon Bailes Peugeot, of Northallerton, Stockton and Guisborough, had the opportunity to speak to David Cameron after his keynote speech to Yorkshire business leaders in Leeds on Friday (September 11).
