MP welcomes tax cuts to help employment John Baron MP, has welcomed the start of tax reforms that will help businesses across Basildon and Billericay to invest more of their money into growing and taking on more staff. From 6 April 2016, employer National Insurance contributions for apprentices under 25 are completely abolished, saving...
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MP says new carriages and timetable changes will help overcrowding John Baron MP has today welcomed news that c2c have announced plans to bring in new carriages and the Department for Transport’s decision to relax the contractual requirements for c2c to stop 95% of trains at the three inner London stations. John Baron MP...
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MP says Government must conduct a fair referendum During Foreign and Commonwealth Office questions in the Commons this afternoon, John Baron MP responded to the Minister for Europe, Rt Hon David Lidington MP, when he stated that those advocating ‘Brexit’ could not come up with an idea of how it would affect our trading...
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MP says ‘unfair’ referendum may not settle the issue The Government is spending £9.3 million on a leaflet advocating a ‘remain’ vote in the forthcoming referendum, which will be sent to 27 million households across the United Kingdom. Though outside the formal ‘purdah’ period ahead of the referendum, many feel this nevertheless breaks the...
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MP presses Essex County Council and Police Having been contacted by concerned businesses in the local area about alleged illegal activity and dangerous behaviour by the group of travellers who have been illegally camped on Chester Hall Lane, John Baron MP has raised concerns with Essex County Council and Essex Police. Local businesses have...
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MP says public deserve explanation before the EU Referendum The UK Statistics Authority has written to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), stating the public must be informed if published migration data ‘falls short of providing a full picture’. The letter was sparked by the revelation that the DWP issues 1.3 million more national...
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MP says EU rules hinder support for strategic steel industry As a member of the EU, control of our trade policy is vested in the European Commission. This means that the British Government is unable to apply measures to prevent other countries, such as China, from ‘dumping’ cheap steel imports. This dumping has badly...
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MP says spending £50 billion hard to justify Today John Baron MP continued his opposition to the new High Speed 2 (HS2) railway link by voting against the High Speed Rail Bill at Third Reading. HS2 has been in Committee Stage for the past two years, during which detailed consideration has been given to...
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MP highlights EU taxes on tampons and energy-saving measures Thanks to the EU, the Government must, against its will, maintain VAT on tampons and raise VAT on energy-saving products such as insulation. This is because the EU judges tampons and other sanitary products to be ‘luxury items’, and because the European Court ruled last...
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MP writes to Chancellor over PIP proposals Today John Baron MP has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, to urge the Government to reconsider its proposals to change the way the daily living component of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is calculated. These changes may affect up to...
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