We are all suffering from lockdown fatigue but it is important to keep following the advice of Public Health England and to stay home as much as we possibly can. Parliament is not sitting at the moment but MPs are still working on numerous coronavirus cases.
People living and working across the East Midlands will benefit from today’s Budget as the Conservatives deliver on the promises made to the British people, investing in infrastructure, the NHS and public services across the region.
Sir Edward Leigh MP has welcomed news of a government grant to build a new ‘pocket park’ in the Gainsborough constituency.
The Government’s pocket park programme was launched in 2016 to transform neglected urban spaces into thriving green havens for the whole community to use.
Flooding continues to be a problem so last week I met with the Debra Campbell, Flood Risk Manager for the Environment Agency, and Andrew Haigh, their Senior Advisor for the East Midlands, to discuss how to get funding for rural areas to compensate farmers for flood plains.
Employment in our country continues to grow and is now at a record high – with more people in work than ever before and unemployment at its lowest since 1974, giving families the security of a good job and more money in their pockets thanks to another month of rising wages.
Sir Edward Leigh MP, the President of the Catholic Union of Great Britain, has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemning the proposed framework for introducing abortion to Northern Ireland as going “far, far beyond” what is legally required.
An amendment to a law passed last year required
Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Gainsborough, has written to West Lindsey District Council asking for a resolution to their dispute with the body that runs the Lincolnshire Showground over business rates.
“The Lincolnshire Agricultural Society is a charitable organisati
Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Gainsborough, has written to the head of the Lloyds Banking Group objecting to the closure of the bank’s Market Rasen branch.
In a letter to Lloyds CEO António Horta-Osório, the MP wrote that he “cannot object more strenuously to the closu
Sir Edward Leigh has welcomed additional railway services that will connect Market Rasen with Leicester and include more regular services between Grimsby and Lincoln.
East Midlands Railways, who took over the franchise of East Midlands Trains in 2019, are looking to make significant changes to the
