Improving Infrastructure and Boosting Investment

Yesterday, the specific Northumberland roads to benefit from £5.5m over two years were detailed in the plan that the Department for Transport made councils produce. Every penny of the £19.8bn saved from the Northern leg of HS2 is being reinvested in transport across the North. You can read more HE

Yesterday, the Department for Education announced £1.8 Billion to improve the condition of schools and sixth-form buildings. £205,920 – for 36 named schools in our constituency to spend on capital projects that meet their own priorities +£4.14 million – to maintain and improve the condition of s

On the day the Chancellor sets out our Plan for Long Term Growth, it was the perfect time to sit down with the Transport Secretary to keep up the pressure to dual the A1 in North Northumberland! It was fantastically encouraging to hear from him that the Govt remains rock solidly behind the project.

Last week’s Budget detailed this Government’s Plan for Long Term Growth. Our plan is working, and we’re sticking to it. The last few years have not been easy for Britain’s economy. We’ve faced Covid, and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.

See my updates first on my Facebook. Yesterday I shared NFU Online’s petition for a ‘Buy British’ button on supermarket online shopping sites. Did you know? ¼ our local North Northumberland businesses are in agriculture, putting farmers at the heart of our rural community and economy £1.04m in

My last column shared just some of the hundreds of millions of your money being invested in North Northumberland. People are rightly asking about progress on dualling our stretch of the A1. Commuting, popping to the shops and driving to surgeries, I rely on local roads too.

£35 million for a new Berwick hospital, completed next year. £33m for Northumberland potholes over three years. £20m new leisure centre in Tweedmouth. £7.3m to upgrade 3,750 North Northumberland premises’ broadband. £3.7m for Northumberland bridge repairs. £4.2m for the Berwick Barracks cultura

Craster Memorial Hall is a wonderful community hub providing warmth, food and drink, social interaction, and internet access, particularly for the vulnerable and those in need, as well as hosting the Parish Council, the Community Trust, the Women’s Institute and the Local History Group. It was fant

Did you know: 55% of small businesses here in Berwick-upon-Tweed have been trading for over a decade, compared to 39% elsewhere in the country, and it was a pleasure to visit one of them recently – Allan Brothers, the longest established window company in the UK! As well as a great tour from factor

I am delighted to share with you that Northumberland and the North of Tyne combined authority has successfully secured £3 million from the Government's £110 million Rural England Prosperity Fund.