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I was pleased to support and open the IKEA Annual Retail Reception at the House of Commons on 31 March 2025. The title of the reception this year was ‘Better Neighbourhoods: Where Our Neighbourhoods Feel Like Home’. Building on their ‘Unwelcome Home’ campaign with the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, we heard from IKEA’s Sustainability

The Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill had 6 amendments selected for debate and votes:  This Bill, introduced to the House on 13 November 2024, amends the non-domestic rating system in England to enable the introduction of new tax rates, introducing powers to create new lower tax rates for qualifying retail, hospitality and leisure

I spoke in the debate on the Second Reading of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on Monday 24 March 2025. It gave me an opportunity to raise concerns about the procedure of planning decisions. You can read my speech in full below: “As we heard from the Secretary of State and Deputy Prime Minister, this

The ‘Joy of Moving’ programme was set up in a partnership between Ferrero and the English Football League in Community (EFLC) and on 19 March 2025 there was a drop in and a demonstration of the programme which teaches children how to enjoy getting up and active through play. In 2024, Sport England found that

I attended a Parliamentary drop-in session on 19 March 2025, organised by The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) who are an independent non-ministerial government department accountable to Parliament. the ORR  protect the interests of rail users, overseeing the value and performance of rail infrastructure and the health and safety of the rail industry across