MP wishes station every success at Community Radio Awards Gateway 97.8, Basildon’s Community radio station, has been shortlisted for two categories in this year’s Community Radio Awards for its broadcasting during the pandemic. Working alongside the Radio Hub networking group, Gateway helped to distribute 15,000 radios across the UK to vulnerable people. The station...
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John Baron MP congratulates Gateway 97.8 on Award shortlisting
John Baron MP presents Budget proposals to Chancellor
MP opposes National Insurance increase Ahead of the Autumn Budget on 27th October, the Chancellor and Treasury Ministers have been asking MPs for their suggestions. This week John Baron MP met the Chancellor and his team to put forward his proposals. These include scrapping HS2; cutting the costs of quangos; cancelling the rise in...
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John Baron MP supports measures to prevent unauthorised development
MP looks forward to Government meeting In the House of Commons today, John Baron MP helped sponsor a Ten-Minute Rule motion secured by Gareth Bacon MP. The proposals intend to address unauthorised development by making it a criminal offence to carry out development without prior planning permission, and also by making it harder to...
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John Baron MP welcomes AUKUS defence pact
MP: Benefits across the UK In a Statement today in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister confirmed the United States, United Kingdom and Australia would form the AUKUS defence pact. This will see the US and UK help Australia with the technology and knowhow necessary to acquire a nuclear-powered submarine fleet. There will...
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John Baron MP: Both sides wrong in Afghanistan withdrawal debate
MP criticises Labour and Conservatives Yesterday the Opposition led a debate on whether to set up a new Committee to investigate the circumstances of Britain’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. John Baron MP abstained in this debate because existing Select Committees are already doing much of this work, and because Labour and Conservative governments alike oversaw...
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John Baron MP welcomes job vacancies and falling unemployment
MP: Plan for Jobs is working Figures released this week show that job vacancies have hit a record high and that unemployment is falling. There are over one million job vacancies, the highest since records began, and unemployment is down to 4.6%. The number of employees on payroll is back up to pre-pandemic levels....
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