Pleased to be appointed Deputy Chair of the @Conservatives. Excited to work with @OliverDowden and @JustinTomlinson to deliver #ConGains at every level across the country. Now to hit the phones for @Bobby_Alden to talk about his plans for Birmingham Erdington🔵🗳
📢 45 new Towns Deals announced in the budget 📢
✅ These towns, spread across the country, are set to benefit from over £1bn in funding 👇
#Budget2021
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🔹@SimonClarkeMP has been a first-class Minister; thoughtful and truly passionate about real devolution and levelling up across the country. It is an immense privilege to carry on this work alongside local authorities and councillors from across the country.
Important issues raised in Yate included:
🚌Covid-secure public transport
🏗Potential options for our new Park and Ride
🚙Parking safety near local primary schools such as the Ridge
🚘Clamping down on car racing on Shireway/Rodford Way
🚆Reopening Charfield Station (2/4)
Important issues raised in Thornbury included:
🚗Speeding in Oakleaze, Morton Way, Streamleaze
🛍Mixed feedback on Thornbury High Street
💷Financial support for businesses
❌Tackling anti social behaviour and drug use
🏫Reopening Thornbury Schools safely (3/4)
A big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to speak with me at one of my pop up stalls in Yate and Thornbury, especially in this heatwave! ☀️ (1/4)
📣 Today we are announcing £105 million to ensure that rough sleepers and vulnerable people in emergency accommodation do not return to the streets 📣
🔹This will help support people to secure tenancies or short-term accommodation before moving into a long-term home (1/4)
For the first time in my lifetime we are aware of who the majority of rough sleepers are in this country and where they are staying. We have a unique opportunity to act on this and help #endroughsleeping for good.
My comment for @insidehousing 👇🏻
https://t.co/G8TPOu49IB
📢 📢£6m for frontline homelessness charities📢 📢
Over 130 homelessness charities will benefit from £6m of funding to help them provide services, including specialist physical and mental health support during coronavirus, following a successful bidding process.
📢Over £8m for #domesticabuse charities📢
🔹This will create over 1,500 essential bed spaces for survivors, giving over 100 charities the vital lifeline to help people across England to escape abuse and rebuild their lives in safety, away from the threat of violence (1/2)
📢 In London, over 4,400 rough sleepers, and people in danger of sleeping rough have been moved into safe accommodation during this pandemic📢
We know that 41% of rough sleepers in London are assessed as having a drug misuse need and 42% as having an alcohol misuse need (1/2)
🔹With almost 15,000 rough sleepers in safe accommodation it is our moral mission to ensure that as few people as possible return to the streets
🔹Providing 6,000 homes is a big step towards achieving this, helping people to turn their lives around and to #endroughsleeping 🏠
Really great today to be out volunteering with my office to help @southernbrooks and @sgloscouncil deliver essential food boxes and prescriptions to local people shielding. The teams there are doing a fantastic job to ensure that those shielding have everything they need 📦 💊