Constituency Issues

John Baron MP highlights Loneliness Awareness Week

15th June 2022
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MP: Age UK offers services to reduce loneliness This week is Loneliness Awareness Week. Research by Age UK found that 1.2 million older people across the UK often feel lonely. Before the pandemic, 225,000 older people often went a week without speaking to someone, and an Age UK poll of older people found that...
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John Baron MP meets Santander team to discuss Billericay branch

10th June 2022
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MP pleased Santander is maintaining high street presence John Baron MP met recently with Franz McCoy, Santander’s Area Director and Ani Cara Public Affairs and Public Policy Manager to discuss changes to branch opening hours at Santander’s Billericay and Basildon branches. Santander has found that branch transactions have fallen by 33% in the two...
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John Baron MP meets members of The Craig Tyler Trust

6th June 2022
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John Baron MP meets members of The Craig Tyler Trust

MP: Visits charity at Chalvedon Community Centre, Pitsea John Baron MP met with the founder of The Craig Tyler Trust, Karen Pullen, whose son died after a struggle with mental health issues. The Trust currently supports people in Basildon, Billericay & Wickford through their social media presence, drop-in centres, and outreach services while working...
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John Baron MP and Stephen Metcalfe MP – Varde Bullers Bridge

25th May 2022
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John Baron MP and Stephen Metcalfe MP – Varde Bullers Bridge

John Baron, MP for Basildon & Billericay and Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, have been in contact with Network Rail about the repairs being made to Varde Bullers footbridge in Laindon. Work is already underway on the Varde Bullers bridge and will continue until mid-July. The bridge was originally closed...
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John Baron MP encourages local museums and galleries to bid for funding

20th May 2022
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MP: Fund will protect historic collections As part of its commitment to levelling up, the Government has announced a new round of funding for museums and galleries from the Museum Estate and Development Fund. This £16.9 million will help museums to conduct maintenance work to improve their building infrastructure for the benefit of visitors,...
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John Baron MP discusses closure of HSBC Bank, Billericay High Street, during visit

16th May 2022
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MP and Karen Collier agree to help vulnerable constituents John Baron MP has recently visited HSBC bank, Billericay High Street, and met with Karen Collier, Local Director, to discuss the news that HSBC UK plan to close the branch as part of a wider branch closure programme consisting of 69 branches in the UK....
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John Baron MP welcomes Platinum Jubilee Commemorative Book

9th May 2022
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MP looks forward to book delivery in constituency As part of the celebrations for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, the Government is making available to all primary school children in state-funded education a commemorative book. This takes the form of a story in which a young girl learns from and is inspired by items collected...
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John Baron MP supports inclusive employment initiative

4th May 2022
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MP calls on local businesses to sign up John Baron MP recently met Emma Gilson from ECL to discuss an inclusive employment initiative that helps adults with learning disabilities and autism achieve their dreams of paid employment. John is now urging local businesses in Basildon and Billericay to sign up and support this initiative...
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John Baron MP welcomes an extra 332 Police Officers

28th April 2022
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MP: 13,576 extra Police Officers recruited nationwide Recently released figures show that 332 Police officers have been recruited in Essex since September 2019, bringing the force’s full strength up to 3,648 officers. These efforts form part of the Conservatives’ election pledge to recruit 20,000 new Police officers across the country by March 2023, of...
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John Baron MP welcomes campaign to boost Pension Credit participation

28th April 2022
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MP: Eligible Pensioners should take up this support The Government is running a campaign to increase the take-up of Pension Credit. Previous initiatives have driven take-up of Pension Credit to the highest level since 2010, but the Government now wants to reach the 850,000 who could still benefit but who have not yet applied....
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