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 Santander team to discuss Billericay branch
John Baron MP hails Tax Freedom Day
MP: Government should go for growth and lower taxes Tomorrow is ‘Tax Freedom Day’, which marks when we stop working for the taxman and start earning for ourselves. Up to this point, every penny the average person earns goes to the taxman. This year Tax Freedom Day is the latest in 40 years. John...
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John Baron MP supports Local Electricity Bill
MP thanked by campaigners for championing community energy John Baron MP supports a proposed new law – the Local Electricity Bill – which would empower communities to sell locally-generated electricity directly to local households, businesses and local public services, reducing dependence on foreign gas. Close to a majority of the House of Commons now...
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John Baron MP supports inclusive employment initiative
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 visits the Department for Work & Pensions in Basildon
MP listened to how the pandemic has affected constituents and the DWP staff John Baron MP recently visited the Department for Work & Pensions in the Basildon Centre at the invitation of the Essex Service Leader, Dave Cope, to discuss a variety of issues including how the pandemic, rise in energy prices and the...
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John Baron MP welcomes cut to fuel duty and NI threshold increase
MP: National Insurance rise should still be scrapped Today the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, gave the Spring Statement. Amongst other measures, the Chancellor announced that for twelve months fuel duty will be cut by 5p per litre, and from July the income threshold for paying National Insurance will rise...
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John Baron MP lobbies Chancellor ahead of Spring Statement
MP: Cutting the cost of fuel and resourcing economic crime agencies are included in priorities Ahead of the Spring Statement, John Baron MP and 52 other Conservative backbench MPs have sent a letter to the Chancellor calling on him to reduce fuel costs, either through reducing duty or cutting VAT. The letter suggests the...
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John Baron MP presses HSBC to stop closure of branch in Billericay
MP says branches are essential to elderly and vulnerable John Baron MP, has today criticised the announcement by HSBC that they will be closing the Billericay branch as part of a wider branch closure programme consisting of 69 branches in the UK. Customers will be written to on 30th May to inform them of...
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John Baron MP signs and tables amendments to Economic Crime Bill
MP: Legislation will shine a brighter light on dirty money Today in the Commons, the Government intends to pass all stages of the Economic Crime Bill, which will aid in efforts to crack down on Russian and other dirty money in the UK. It will introduce a Register of Overseas Entities, which will force...
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John Baron MP: NI Rise is wrong tax at the wrong time
MP urges Government to drop April NI increases Given recent borrowing figures have shown that the public finances are in a better state than anticipated some months ago, John Baron MP is re-iterating his calls for the forthcoming increase in National Insurance to be abandoned. In September John voted against the Health & Social...
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