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This government is rushing through reams of legislation as it attempts to replace 43 years of legislative framework in just a few short months. The lack of rigour and disregard for proper process is frightening. This is a ludicrous situation for country to find itself, with only nine parliamentary days until we are due to leave the EU
On average, disabled people face extra costs of £583 a month and families with disabled children face £581 each month. This ‘disability price tag’ must end
This Brexit deal is deeply flawed. It will not protect jobs, workplace rights or living standards or maintain environmental standards.
Ofsted will be consulting on their draft Education Inspection Framework until April 5. I was pleased to support Young Minds campaign to improve school approaches to mental health and wellbeing by making sure that Ofsted also recognises for the work that they do to promote and support student's mental health.
The closure of Honda’s plant in Swindon will have a devastating impact on our regional economy. The Government is failing to protect manufacturing.
David Drew MP has joined hundreds of thousands of people up and down the country proudly wearing green hearts to show they want to protect the people, places and lives they love from climate change.
Video. David Drew MP has again asked for an urgent debate about how councils handle big contracts, saying that it appeared there had been “impropriety” in the handling of information in Gloucestershire.
Headteachers all tell me school finances are on the brink and are having a real impact on our children. So I raised this directly with Schools Minister Nick Gibb in my special school funding debate. I hope he will take heed and invest in our children so they can all fulfil their potential. Watch here…
I have been calling for a debate in Parliament about the state of education funding in Gloucestershire and am pleased that I have now been granted a debate on Wednesday 30 January. I’d love to hear about your experiences ahead of that debate so I can raise them directly with the Government. Please get in touch here.
I have been calling for a debate in Parliament about the state of education funding in Gloucestershire and am pleased that I have now been granted a debate on Wednesday 30 January. I’d love to hear about your experiences ahead of that debate so I can raise them directly with the Government. Please get in touch here.
Cervical screening uptake is at a 21-year low in England with more than a quarter of women not booking a potentially life-saving test, which is why I’m backing Cervical Cancer Prevention Week
“I fear that Brexit will become one of the biggest domestic policy disasters this country has known.”
Watch David’s speech and read the full text here.
David Drew MP has called on Parliament to hold an urgent debate on incineration contracts, after documents have finally revealed that the Javelin Park incinerator will cost £100 million more than planned.
More than 50 people gathered to hear David’s update on the week in Westminster and some of the background to Brexit, as well as to discuss how we move forward.
David Drew MP has backed a call by the Dogs Trust for the government to take urgent action to end the cruel practice of puppy smuggling. Using virtual reality, David also experienced the terrible conditions in which puppies are transported across Central and Eastern Europe to be sold to unsuspecting buyers in the UK.
Dear Amber, …“we have witnessed our constituents being pushed into poverty. People in receipt of Universal Credit report going hungry, being left unable to afford clothes, toiletries or heating, and struggling to pay rent. They have been forced into debt and rent arrears, and surviving on foodbank vouchers.”
David Drew MP was among more than 20 parliamentarians who took part in a photocall with the Martin Fisher Foundation’s ‘Stiggy the StigmaSaur’.
