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What three national issues are of most concern to you? 1 CAMPAIGNING FOR Dear Constituent, Climate Change Crime Defence BETTER BROADBAND It’s a huge honour and a privilege to be your Member of Parliament for Corby and East The lack of broadband coverage in some Northamptonshire. At the end of my first year in Parliament, welcome to my Westminster Economy Education Environment areas is a source of great frustration to Report for 2015-16, where you can find out more about what I’ve been doing as part of my Europe Family Foreign Affairs many of my constituents, especially as ‘Listening Campaign’, both in Parliament and the constituency, over the last year. recent figures show that 90% of homes in Health Housing Immigration the UK now have access to a superfast As always, if I can ever be of any help to you, please feel free to contact me at any time using Jobs Transport connection. For the remaining 10%, the following details: including parts of the constituency, it is Tom Pursglove MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA Address: 020 7219 8043 vital that we keep campaigning for this [email protected] Telephone: What local issue concerns you most in Corby? important utility, and I will continue to take Email: 2 up local broadband challenges that are I also hold weekly advice surgeries in both Corby and , and as I raised with me, and meet regularly with said in the run up to the General Election, I remain committed to being Corby and East Making my Maiden Speech in June 2015 BT, Northamptonshire County Council, Northamptonshire’s voice in Westminster and not Westminster’s voice in the constituency. - the most nervous I’ve ever been! and Ministers, to ensure that connectivity is achieved as soon as possible. I also Now, for some of what I’ve been getting up to! continue to make the argument that new developments should have appropriate With best wishes, I strongly support our steel industry. Do you support my campaign to broadband coverage in place from day 3 keep all the options on the table to help secure its future and protect it one – this is now a crucially important utility for generations to come? from both a life and work perspective and it Tom should be installed as standard. Tom Pursglove MP - Member of Parliament for Corby & East Northamptonshire YES NO Visiting the Corby steelworks. Do you have any further issues or concerns that you would like me GENERAL TOM STANDING UP FOR 4 to be aware of? HOSPITAL URGENT This was followed by a visit with Councillor Beattie and the Rt. Hon Anna Soubry MP, CARE HUB OUR STEEL INDUSTRY the Minister of State for Small Business, Along with my two colleagues in North Industry and Enterprise, where we met with Since my election last year, I have also fundamental to ensuring our national both senior management and union leaders Northamptonshire, MP, and taken a significant interest and security. You never know what the future to discuss the broad challenges facing the MP, and indeed my role in parliamentary activity on holds and it is unacceptable to rely upon industry, whilst also receiving a briefing on predecessor, I have been very supportive the UK steel industry, and in my the prospect of importing steel during any the Corby site in particular. We also had of the plans for a new Urgent Care Hub period of national crisis or emergency. As a tour and met some of the 600 workers. I produce a fortnightly Westminster Report that I send out electronically, at Kettering General Hospital - a project first week in Westminster, before such, I have been working very hard on a I even had an office, I became Crucially, the Corby site is a viable business, 5 to keep local people up-to-date with the work I am doing as your local which has rightly united politicians on all cross-party basis to try and resolve some and there is a strong plan in place to help MP. Would you like to receive it? sides in our area. KGH has seen increasing Vice-Chairman of the APPG on of the challenges facing the industry, both improve matters further – it will, however, attendances at A&E, making the need Steel and Metal Related Industry. through the APPG, working with the unions, require both time and investment to see YES NO If Yes, please provide your email address below. for a new, innovative, solution even more As one of very few Conservative industry and Ministers, and locally, with it through; the importance of which I have Councillor Tom Beattie, the Leader of Corby pressing. Working together, we met with members with a steelworks in my regularly stressed to Ministers during their constituency, I have been very Borough Council, and Margot Parker MEP, discussions. A year into the role, how do you think I am doing as your local MP? Ben Gummer MP, the Parliamentary the UKIP MEP for the East . My Under Secretary of State for Quality at the outspoken on this matter, both in 6 Excellent Good Average Terrible work has particularly focused on the unfair Throughout, I have been clear that nothing Department of Health, last year, to discuss the House of Commons chamber and uncompetitive ‘dumping’ of steel on should be ruled out, and that all the options the plans, which I have also raised regularly and in meetings with Ministers. our market, business rates, and energy should be kept on the table to help secure PLEASE ENTER YOUR DETAILS BELOW, TEAR OFF PAGE AND POST BACK in the House of Commons - if built, this The steelworks is a very important costs, all of which are placing a real strain the future of our steel industry. I stand NAME innovative Urgent Care Hub would bring employer in Corby, and our steelmaking on the operational costs and viability of the by that position. This is not a matter of A&E, urgent care, social care, mental health heritage goes right to the heart of our industry. In essence, we must ensure that left or right, or of ideology – more one of provision and GPs, all under one roof. Rest town. We simply cannot afford to lose our steel industry is able to compete on a pragmatism, and arguably, right and wrong. ADDRESS level playing field and secure its future. assured that I will continue to make the the highly skilled jobs that the industry To secure the future of the industry, not case for this important development, and provides. As I have long maintained, it is Following the announcement that Tata only do we have to tackle the day-to-day POSTCODE PHONE/MOBILE do all I can to help secure much-needed Steel were selling their UK operations back challenges of dumping, energy costs and investment in KGH. in March, I hand-delivered a letter to 10 business rates, but we must also ensure EMAIL Downing Street urging the Prime Minister to that it has a truly stable footing. Corby is a intervene urgently to ensure the Government proud steel town and those employed at played a full role in helping to convene the site, and the wider community, are very HOW WE USE YOUR DATA: Some data we receive from you will probably comprise personal data about you and may include sensitive personal data. 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UNEMPLOYMENT Council and Northamptonshire County WASTE PLANT SUPPORTING LITTLE STANION Council, about progress. The issue of the THE PM COMES KEEPS ON development stalling and the associated PROPOSALS: The ongoing situation at Little Stanion LOCAL lack of infrastructure is still ongoing, and FALLING has understandably been a very CORBY SAYS ‘NO’! I share residents’ frustration that effective TO TOWN! important issue for every resident of POLICING solutions have not yet been found. This is Back in September, I was pleased Upon my selection as the Parliamentary the development. a hugely complex issue, involving legal to join the Prime Minister and the Candidate back in April 2013, the first local As well as holding a Little Stanion Summit processes, and one that I have been Secretary of State for Education at campaign I got involved in was to oppose last year - where residents could speak working on closely with the excellent Corby Technical School, where the the proposed waste gasification plant on with all interested parties and have the Little Stanion Village Association (LSVA), announcement of a new free school the Brookfield Plantation. opportunity to raise any concerns, before since my election. Going forward, rest in Corby was made. Ever since that first march, I have stood assured that I will continue to fight for the Corby Borough Council’s Development Pupils at the school had the opportunity shoulder to shoulder alongside local development to be properly completed, Control Committee met to make key to put their questions to the Prime people in opposing these proposals for the and to ensure that residents are able to decisions - I have been in regular Minister and it was a great opportunity plantation, having heard loud and clear obtain answers to the questions they have. contact with my constituents living in for him to see the results of the the calls of “Corby says ‘NO’!”, along with Little Stanion, and with Corby Borough fantastic work local teachers, parents the many strong reasons why it is totally Visiting Amaray, where I learnt the DVD and students have put in to make inappropriate and unacceptable. case was first manufactured in Corby! CTS an ‘Outstanding’ school. The Similarly, earlier this year, I was pleased to announcement of the new free school hear that the planning application relating Supporting our local magistrates in I am delighted that the number also demonstrates the Government’s to amendments to the proposed gasification the fight to keep Corby Magistrates’ of people claiming JSA in Corby commitment to investment in Corby plant at Shelton Road was called in by the Court open. Unfortunately, our and East Northamptonshire has and I am delighted that it will deliver Secretary of State for Communities and efforts were unsuccessful. continued to fall by over 63 additional school places, along with Local Government, having pressed for this percent since its 2009 peak. We greater choice for parents. I have also to happen. Subsequently, I submitted my Our police have been chronically are very lucky to have such a kept up the pressure for fairer funding representations to the Secretary of State’s underfunded over many years, variety of employers in Corby, and for schools in our area, after years consultation, and the decision now rests relative to other areas, and this over the past year, I have had the PROGRESS ON RAIL ENTERPRISE ZONE BID of underfunding under successive with him, although I keep a close eye on year, we have seen a number opportunity to visit many of them, governments, and I am pleased Ministers progress. of changes to police funding, ELECTRIFICATION are taking action to put this right. both large and small. something I have lobbied the In October 2015, I was delighted Chancellor of the Exchequer and For example, large local employers to hear the Secretary of State for Home Secretary on. such as RS Components, Aluminium Transport’s announcement that work Shapes, Tayto and Amaray are a Not only will the new Police will commence on the electrification of Funding Formula ensure greater great advertisement for Corby’s proud the Midland Mainline. manufacturing base, and employ funding fairness across the country, thousands of local people. I have also As part of Network Rail’s Route Upgrade but I was delighted when it was been hugely impressed by the great Plan, they will be delivering a programme announced in the Autumn Statement breadth of small and medium-sized of work to enhance the Midland Mainline that overall police spending would businesses that we have in the town between now and 2023. The work will Taking local business leaders to Downing be protected in line with inflation – businesses such as Bred’s Food and include the electrification of the line, as Street to meet the Chancellor to celebrate - this will be an increase of £900 the Corby Company Shop, along with well as alterations to station platforms, their success and raise concerns. million by 2019-20. the excellent newly-opened Corby remodelling of signalling and track and a Whilst I will always press for more Smash Table Tennis Centre, all of which variety of other improvements to railway Late last year, I was disappointed to learn make a huge contribution to the local police officers out on the beat, infrastructure that will mean it will be that the local bid for a new Enterprise It was great to welcome the Prime Minister to CTS last year to hear about the school’s success. community and beyond. Zone on the boundary between Corby catching criminals and deterring possible to run more trains, longer trains, crime, I have been impressed by It has been great to visit such a and faster trains, as well as reducing carbon and East Northamptonshire had not been successful, after months of enthusiastic the forward-thinking work that diverse range of businesses and see emissions. In our area, these upgrades have have been first-hand the terrific work that they already started with track improvements lobbying in the House of Commons in support of it. doing, particularly to help reduce do - with many highly skilled local between Kettering and Corby. THE FIGHT AGAINST UNWANTED OVER- rural crime - as we all know, crime people excelling in their specific fields. Network Rail have announced that As such, I was determined to identify where DEVELOPMENT: PROTECT OUR VILLAGES crosses county boundaries and And, when local firms have got into the Government perceived the weaknesses difficulty, such as Fairline Boats, I have electrification of the line north of Bedford tackling it must be achieved through in the bid to be, in order that more work worked with the unions, the employees to Kettering and Corby will be completed As a rapidly growing town, Corby has seen significant new development coordination with neighbouring affected, other local businesses, by 2019 and the line north of Kettering to can be done to address these concerns. forces. I am also pleased to receive in recent years, and as your local MP, it is one of my top priorities to regular updates from the local along with JobCentre Plus, the local , / and Sheffield I met with the Minister for Local Growth ensure that this development is reasonable and proportionate, and that authorities and Northamptonshire by 2023, thus, continuing the biggest policing teams, along with the and the Northern Powerhouse, James appropriate infrastructure investment accompanies it. Enterprise Partnership, to ensure that investment into our railways since Victorian Wharton MP, in January, to discuss this organisations they work closely with all of the appropriate help and support times. I will certainly continue to keep a close matter. Whilst it is clear that Corby and Protecting our rural areas against unwelcome over-development has also been one of to tackle crime – for example, the has been made available, with the vast eye on progress and keep up the pressure East Northamptonshire is in a fantastic my key priorities, and an issue which has dominated my postbag. In the Corby JAM project, majority finding alternative suitable for more services both northbound and strategic position, the competition was villages around Corby, we have seen a which has done employment locally. This is testament southbound, from Corby. fierce. Officials agreed, therefore, to number of unwanted planning applications incredible work over to the strength of our local business meet with Northamptonshire Enterprise come forward and I have done everything many years in the community and what always strikes Partnership, Corby Borough Council and I can to help support the objections of town to drive down me is the loyalty of our workforce and East Northamptonshire Council, amongst antisocial behaviour. the pride individuals take in their work, the brilliant local campaigns launched other partners, to discuss the bid and and in the business as a whole. As the to oppose them, including in Cottingham, what improvements could be made to any local MP, I am right behind them and I Middleton, and Weldon. Alongside this will always shout from the rooftops for future submission, to ensure it has the best work, in Westminster, I continue to make Visiting Rockingham more jobs and more investment – as possible chance of success. the case that the planning system should Castle to see this jewel in the Corby crown and to the fastest growing town in the country, Going forward, I will continue to work with respect the wishes of local residents – to it is clear we need more jobs, more my mind, if an application is refused by the understand the business. all involved to make the case for a new I continue to help fight investment and more infrastructure. Enterprise Zone – with the housing growth Council, then the developer should listen to Boris boarding the train at Corby. Next time, this judgement and let the matter rest there. to protect stunning rural (Peak was May 2009 - Claimant total 3,133) we are experiencing, it is only right that we settings such as this. the journey should be quicker! receive infrastructure boosts like this.