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:

The Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility has written to South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, last week to say that 77 new South West Bedfordshire businesses have received financial support from the Government’s Start-Up Loans initiative with a total value of £

Figures released from the House of Commons’ Library show that the number of unemployed claimants in South West Bedfordshire in September 2018 was 535. This represents a rate of 0.9% of the economically active population aged 16-64. The total number of claimants is 25 lower than September 2017.

Following requests from parents and cycling organisations for more safe routes for children to cycle to school, South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, raised this issue in the House of Commons with Roads’ Minister, Jesse Norman last week.

The exchange in Hansard was as follows:

In a letter to South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group have confirmed that they will be providing a community phlebotomy service in Dunstable and Houghton Regis in October.