2025: Week 30 - Saunas and Pop-ups!
This week has been a busy one, full of meetings and visits around the constituency.
11 Aug 2025
National News
£1,000 of taxpayer cash spent on Labour Council Leader’s resignation party
A freedom of information request has revealed that taxpayers coughed up £1,088.52 for former Southwark Council Leader Cllr Keiron Williams’ resignation party, held in July.
11 Aug 2025
SEND
Chris presses Schools Minister on plans for Betchwood Vale Academy
I pressed the Minister for School Standards on what steps the Government is taking to deliver promised SEND schools.
11 Aug 2025
Norwich
Crisis in our SEND System: Private Profiteering
Private companies are making huge profits as SEND budgets spiral and vulnerable people suffer without the help that they need. Government intervention is needed.
MW
11 Aug 2025
CIPD Report: Govt's jobs tax has dealt an "absolute hammer blow to businesses"
Responding to the CIPD’s latest Labour Market Outlook, which found cost pressures and the Govt's NICs hike have lead to record low in private sector hiring plans, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
11 Aug 2025
Almost a thousand died from high temperatures in hospitals and care homes last year as Lib Dems call on Govt to “heatproof the NHS”
There were close to 1,000 excessive heat deaths in healthcare settings last year, official government data analysed by the Liberal Democrats reveals as the Party calls on the Government to “heatproof the NHS”.
10 Aug 2025