Former architecture and heritage Minister John Penrose’s campaign for urban renewal and greenfield preservation got an important boost yesterday, with support from the Minister for Sustainable Development & Housing Don Foster MP during a Parliamentary Debate. John called on the Minister to help local communities preserve the best and most…
The Conservative MP for Weston-super-Mare has welcomed today’s decision by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to give Weston General Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department an additional £4.8m to deal with expected increases in demand this Winter. John Penrose said he had campaigned for better health funding for Weston and the…
Weston’s MP John Penrose has welcomed the Government’s promise of fairer school funding made in yesterday’s spng review, after many years campaigning for a better deal for Weston’s schools. George Osborne announced a fairer national funding formula for schools by 2015-16, to iron out huge historical differences in the amount…
As the ongoing reform of the Probation Service will bring in new private and voluntary organisations to deal with the rehabilitation of offenders, Weston’s MP John Penrose has written to the Justice Secretary to seek assurances that the changes won’t undermine local efforts to improve the quality of rehabs and…