Sir John Hayes MP (South Holland and the Deepings), Gareth Davies MP (Grantham and Stamford), and I met with the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock MP, the day before the 1 December vote on the new regime of public health restrictions as we move out of the second lockdown.
Sir Edward Leigh has written to Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, urging him to keep gyms, leisure facilities, and swimming pools open to preserve the country's physical and mental health.
November is inescapably a poignant time of year where the days are getting shorter, the clocks have changed, and we prepare ourselves for winter. Somehow it seems appropriate that the Great War ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918.
In Britain today, no child need go hungry — particularly at Christmas. At the start of the pandemic, extraordinary measures were put in place to help vulnerable children, including extending free school meals when schools were partially closed.
Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP for Gainsborough, has welcomed the announcement that West Lindsey’s Trinity Arts Centre is to receive a major cash boost from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
Over 100 million meals have been claimed under the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme. 55,000 meals claimed under the scheme in the Gainsborough constituency. Sir Edward urges local people to continue supporting local businesses as the UK bounces back from coronavirus.
New £2 billion Kickstart scheme will create thousands of new jobs for young people across UK, as part of coronavirus recovery . Those on Universal Credit aged between 16-24 will be offered six-month work placements – with wages and training costs paid by the Government.
Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP for Gainsborough, has written to the Prime Minister to encourage him to secure a trade deal with the EU and to compromise if necessary.
