The Home Secretary has finally announced that Scampton will not be used to house migrants and that the Government will dispose of the site ‘as soon as is practicable’.
I welcome this statement as of course I have persistently dogged the Home Office with questions, correspondence, and meetings.
It
It is deeply humbling that the voters of the Gainsborough constituency have again trusted me to represent them in Parliament.
As I am the longest-serving MP, I am now the Father of the House and I am acting as a deputy for Mister Speaker until the deputy speakers are elected next week.
It was a pr
Farmers in low-lying areas of Lincolnshire are suffering from flooding, so I told ministers today that any update on the support that they can be given would be very helpful.
My specific question for the Secretary of State was to ask if the Government will update us on when they will announce the l
When it comes to small boat crossings, there is a lot of talk of human rights, but surely the only human right and life that matters is the life of children who are being taken across the channel.
I asked Rishi Sunak at Prime Minister's Questions today if the Government will now do the only thing t
Coming soon to Gainsborough: a Savoy Cinema.
Thanks to the £6 million I persuaded Michael Gove to give in Levelling Up funds.
Works are underway in the Market Place and around Gainsborough through the money central government is investing in our town.
Fifteen months after the Government announced that they were taking over the whole of RAF Scampton and putting 2,000 migrants there, not a single one has arrived.
We have fought the Home Office to a complete standstill and everything we have said has been proved correct; the costs are rising expone
Here in Gainsborough we have the finest urban Tudor hall in England — visit Gainsborough Old Hall!
In the 1960s some councillors wanted to knock it down and build a car park.
Thanks to the Friends of the Old Hall it was saved.
And currently blooming!
Sir Edward Leigh has attacked the proposals for solar power installations in and around Gainsborough, saying they are "unwelcome, unwise, and they undermine our countryside".
Speaking in a House of Commons debate, the Gainsborough MP said "the opposition to them in my constituency, and increasingly
Sir Edward Leigh called for improving the level of mobile phone coverage in the countryside at Science, Innovation, and Technology questions in the House of Commons.
"Why should people living in rural areas be second-class citizens when it comes to mobile phone coverage?" the West Lindsey MP asked.
