Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, welcomed the Beverley Cherry Tree Youth Club to the House of Commons to celebrate the Kids Count Inspiration Awards.
The club received a “Highly Commended” award for their contribution to the “Best Contribution by a Community Group” category.
To celebrate English Tourism Week Graham Stuart MP visited Jayne and John Scott, owners of the Trinity Guest House in Beverley.
He made the visit to talk about how they are planning for the return of international and domestic tourists now that all Covid-19 restrictions have ceased in England.
MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and says he supports the Government’s severe sanctions against Russia.
Graham Stuart MP has also signed a book of solidarity in the Houses of Parliament to Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Parliament of Ukraine.
MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, met the NFU and local farmers to discuss the concerns and challenges of the Farming Rules for Water. The group consisted of arable, horticultural, poultry and pig farmers.
The CADEY Committee, accompanied by their generous funders Esh Construction and Humber Aid have made a whistle-stop tour of Beverley and Holderness to pay visits to the life-saving public access defibrillators installed over the summer.
MP Graham Stuart met with Paul Coe, Chairman of the Wombles of Beverley to pay thanks for all the work they have put into preserving Beverley’s green spaces and public hotspots that people have come to depend on more during the pandemic to meet loved ones.
Graham Stuart MP has indicated that he will fight proposals that would carve most of his constituency of Beverley and Holderness into two new constituencies.
Meanwhile, the South West Holderness council ward, currently in Beverley and Holderness, would be absorbed into the Hull East constituency.
Graham Stuart MP, Chair of CADEY, met with CADEY committee members Nick Middleton (HEY Smile Foundation), Nicola Waudby (Humber Aid), and Warren Bostock and Jo Watson (Yorkshire Ambulance Service) to congratulate them on their hard work and inroads into covering all communities in Beverley and Holderness with publicly accessible defibrillators.
Graham Stuart MP is in discussions with Parish Councils and internet provider KCOM on ways to bring full-fibre broadband to communities in his Beverley and Holderness constituency.
As part of the new £5bn Project Gigabit, the Government has announced £210m worth of vouchers to help communities with slow broadband.
Graham Stuart MP has welcomed a revolutionary new bus strategy for the UK, which he has hailed as a chance for his constituents to finally benefit from cheaper, more reliable and more frequent bus services.
Backed up by £3 billion of funding from the Government, the strategy will formalise the relationship between East Riding of Yorkshire Council and local bus operators.
MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, has sung the praises of schools across his constituency – offering his thanks to teachers, teaching assistants, governors, and parents and pupils themselves for their resilience and flexibility during the coronavirus pandemic.
MP Graham Stuart has sought an update on the situation at the Humber’s docks following the end of the UK’s transition period with the EU at the end of 2020.
The UK and the EU finalised a long-awaited ‘Trade & Cooperation Agreement’ on Christmas Eve last year – just a week before both parties had been set to begin trading without an agreement.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has written to secondary schools in his constituency for Restart a Heart Day, which this year took place virtually.
The local MP, who is the founder of the CADEY campaign to ensure full coverage of publicly accessible defibrillators across Beverley and Holderness, is encouraging schools to apply for a free CPR kit from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to improve awareness of the importance of knowing CPR in the event of a sudden cardiac arrest.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, along with Steve Montgomery, Managing Director of FirstGroup, Hull Trains’ owners, this week held an urgent, Ministerial-level discussion on the severe impact of coronavirus on Hull Trains.
The talks with the Rail Minister, Chris Heaton-Harris MP, were arranged at short notice in recognition of the firm’s ongoing difficulties.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, took the opportunity to visit Beverley Men in Sheds – one of three similar projects combatting social isolation in his constituency.
With other projects in Withernsea and Hornsea, the Beverley branch runs in Oldroyd’s Corner inside Beverley Garden Centre. The purpose of the Shed is for older men (and women) to connect while taking part in activities that are often similar to those of garden sheds up and down the country.
The Government has announced this week that £500 million will be made available to reverse some of the infamous Beeching cuts to the British rail system in the 1960s.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has leapt at the chance to put forward the case for the reinstatement of the old Beverley to York rail line.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, has spoken of his determination to keep on tackling flood prevention to make sure we never see a repeat of the devastation caused by floods in 2007.
Heavy rain throughout the beginning of November led once again to people’s homes being flooded as the overly saturated ground couldn’t cope with the amount of rainfall.
Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, will be continuing his regular street surgeries this Saturday 21st September.
The surgeries are an opportunity to raise an issue with Graham about personal matters or to raise any kind of concern to do with government or parliament, or simply just to pop by and say hello.