Fingleton’s Simon Oates discusses the potential implications for regulated companies of the Penrose Review of UK competition policy. Is the system of regulatory appeals in the UK about to be overhauled? In September last year, the prime minister asked John Penrose to examine UK competition policy with a view to identifying how…
Weston’s MP John Penrose has welcomed news the Government will drop proposals to increase North Somerset’s housebuilding targets from 1,365 to 1,708 a year. This announcement comes just months after John wrote to Ministers raising concerns that the proposed new housebuilding targets were unrealistic and weeks after John and Liam…
After calls with John and Liam Fox over the weekend, Matt Hancock has written to both the Weston and North Somerset MPs promising to ‘look at North Somerset on its own merits’ rather than part of Bristol at 2 week review.
John asks the Chancellor “not to lose the focus” on paying back the cost of Covid and asks about his Restart programme to get the long-term unemployed working again. Rishi Sunak says he wants to rebuild the country’s finances as soon as he can, and the Restart programme will help…