Chloe SmithA new year and my ongoing priorities for you. I want to wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2019. As we begin a new year, I wanted to take this opportunity to keep you updated of the key areas of work I am focusing on for our city. 1) I want to ensure there ...
On Friday 7th December, I wrote to Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, following the CQC’s report that was released this week highlight various failings within the Trust. I wrote to the Minister telling him that I find the situation ...
Everyone in this country should feel safe and happy to be who they are, to love who they love, and to live their lives without judgement or fear. Back in July I wrote about the Government’s LGBT Action Plan outlining what steps the Government is taking to tackle bullying in schools, to protect...
I'm blogging about particular aspects of the Budget, which was presented to Parliament this week, so constituents are informed. This blog is about the benefit known as Universal Credit, which some constituents have recently got in touch with me about. I also wrote about it in October and you can...
More good news announced at the Budget this week was additional funding for the NHS and social care. The NHS is the nation’s number one spending priority and at the Budget the Chancellor reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to ensuring the NHS has access to the long term sustainable fu...
PLEASE SHARE WITH ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP! Do you have empty storage space in or around Norwich? If so, would you be willing to help excellent local Domestic Abuse charity, Dawn’s New Horizon? This Sprowston-based charity is desperately seeking some help with storage for donated it...
Today, the Home Secretary and Communities Secretary have announced new measures to tackle hate crime, including a review into how to make legislation more effective, provision of £1.5 million extra funding for communities, and a new nationwide public awareness campaign. These new ...
The Norwich For Jobs project is proud to welcome new Strategic Board Members as we look forward to the project’s new challenges. The Norwich for Jobs project, which launched in 2013, set out to halve Norwich’s youth unemployment. We achieved this goal and worked beyond that to help th...
This week I welcomed Justine Greening MP, who launched the Social Mobility Pledge (https://www.socialmobilitypledge.org/), to Norwich to find out more about the work of the Norwich Opportunity Area. During her visit, we also met with organisations, including Norwich Mind to discuss how their work li...
The independent energy regulator Ofgem has set out details of our energy price cap, which for the first time will protect all households from unfair price rises from the end of this year. For more information from Ofgem about price caps, please visit: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/what-energy-safeguar...