South West Bedfordshire MP Andrew Selous asks the Prime Minister in PMQ's about traveller's the day after he proposed major changes to traveller planning law in the House of Commons on Tuesday in order to get better outcomes for settled residents and travellers.

South West Bedfordshire MP Andrew Selous proposed major changes to traveller planning law in the House of Commons yesterday in order to get better outcomes for settled residents and travellers.

Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary of State James Brokenshire has announced an extra £2,345,341 for Central Bedfordshire to spend on adults and children's social care.

Figures released from the House of Commons’ Library show that the number of unemployed claimants in South West Bedfordshire in October 2018 was 510. This represents a rate of 0.9% of the economically active population aged 16-64. The total number of claimants is 60 lower than October 2017.

The Government has given Central Bedfordshire Council £1,976,000 extra cash to fix potholes. This is new money to be used for local highways maintenance.

Power for People, an organisation campaigning for more local, clean energy, today welcomed the support of South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, for a Bill introduced in Parliament that, if made law, would allow communities to sell locally generated energy to local people.

Speaking in Parliament today, the Chancellor of the Exchequer committed an extra £160 million to Police Counter Terrorism Funding for 2019/20 from which Bedfordshire Police will benefit.  He then went on to say, “I recognise that policing more generally is under pressure from the changing nature

South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, has warmly welcomed the increase in community phlebotomy provision in Dunstable, as explained by NHS Bedfordshire in the attached news release.

Andrew Selous said: