The Government is investing £237 million in new Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) 🩺
As part of that investment, Exeter’s Nightingale Hospital CDC will be expanded
Read more about it on DevonLive here: www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
£200,000 funding boost for libraries in Devon from this Labour Government’s Libraries Improvement Fund 📚
This will allow for upgrades to library buildings as well as investment in new tech, making local services easier to access
“Short-term national interest should not trump long-term security and defence needs.”
@steveracemp.bsky.social sets out the argument for closer UK-EU defence frameworks in combatting current geopolitical challenges at the UK-EU PPA in Brussels last week.
Nutrition “is the foundation everything else rests on, good health, strong economies and resilient communities,” as Chris Elmore said at last night’s @APPG and ICAN reception.
Huge thanks also to David Mundell and @steveracemp.bsky.social for speaking, and for everyone who came along.
📣£20 MILLION FOR EXETER 📣
Exeter has been awarded a £20 million investment through our flagship Pride in Place programme.
The money will be focused on the area around Whipton, to be spent on what matters most to local people – that means you get to decide how it’s spent!
📣£20 MILLION FOR EXETER 📣
Exeter has been awarded a £20 million investment through our flagship Pride in Place programme.
The money will be focused on the area around Whipton and east Heavitree, to be spent on what matters most to local people – that means you get to decide how it’s spent!
And today I talked about this programme in the EU parliament, as part of my work on the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly!
Great to meet you all and thanks for having me
“After 15 years of almost unending bad economic news, there are signs that the pall of despond hanging over the British economy may be about to lift.”
We’ve a lot more we need to do to fix the SEND crisis in Devon, but the government has written off 90% of the national £5bn debt that the Tory government left behind.
For Devon that means £180m written off - allowing the Council certainty to move forward.
www.exetertoday.co.uk/news/local-n...
Hi Denis, I raised this with the Chair of the DSIT Select Committee when I saw it recently
Out on the doorstep supporting our candidate Angeliki in Gorton & Denton today.
People are very keen that we are focused on delivery for them and their families - on jobs, educations, transport, immigration and the NHS.
That’s what the PM is delivering for the country.
a presenter wearing a yellow t-shirt stands at the front of a stage and gestures to a large audience
musicians wearing concert clothing hold up their flutes to show the audience,
Despite the rainy forecast, our ‘Explore the Orchestra’ concerts made a splash in Devon last week, when almost 2,300 pupils and teachers flooded in from across the county to take part in the events at @exeter.ac.uk
Catch the full story 🡺 bsolive.com/news/despite...
📸Andy Casey
Thanks to Minister for Care @skinnock.bsky.social and Chief Dental Officer for England Jason Wong for attending our Q&A session on NHS #dentistry in Parliament today.
The packed room shows the strength of feeling in Parliament on this crucial issue.
They should be escorting people across the tracks safely with additional staff - if you’ve not had that support, could you drop me a line with the details please? Steve.race.mp@parliament.uk
It was a delight to welcome @steveracemp.bsky.social to Inspired Villages Millbrook Village to meet residents and learn more about #integratedretirementcommunities.
A special thanks to Gavin Hogg for facilitating the visit!
📉 NHS waiting lists in #Exeter and nationwide - down
📈 Ambulance response times - up
There’s much much more to do to turn our #NHS around but thanks to investment, reform, and the hard work and dedication of staff, we’re making sure it will be back on its feet and fit for the future.
The news today?
Reform = backwater for Tories who failed over 14 years. 🥸
Tories = weak and divided by more psychodrama. 🤪
Labour government = waiting lists in our NHS drastically reduced and economic growth up. 🌹
@SkyNews 👇
This issue is already moving forward in legislation though - as part of the Pride in Place strategy, communities and local authorities will be given more powers to decline licensing applications like this.
Out in the chilly sunshine today talking to #Exeter residents in Duryard & St James about wheelie bins and potholes, to the cost of living, NHS waiting lists, and climate change.
There’s a huge amount of work going on to turn our country around - in 2026, we’ll feel it.
Hi, Devon County Council get a line item for £1.8m for homelessness support from government, but choose to reallocate it because it’s not ringfenced. I think that’s something people might want to know.
Hi Miranda, I’m a PPS to Health Department, so technically a member of the government, and so not able to sign public letters like this.
The Tories’ Shadow Attorney General, Lord Wolfson, is representing Roman Abramovich in a legal case that is delaying the transfer of £2.5bn of assets to benefit the people of Ukraine.
I’ve written to Kemi Badenoch about the conflicts of interest this raises. 👇
No idea to be honest - let’s wait for the budget and the if there’s an identified perceived issue, drop me an email and I can feed into HMT and get a response
The detail is that anyone who works or studies will have transferred onto a work or student visa and moved onto new pathways.
Opening safe and legal routes so that we stop people handing themselves to people smugglers and taking a dangerous - often deadly - journey across the channel? Why do you object to that?
I have met Chris before happily. It’s in my diary but parliament is sitting at the same time so depends whether I need to be in the chamber. Though I also don’t need convincing!
No it’s not
Great work, congrats to the team
The great Michael Barclay gets the best out of Keir Starmer. Human, revealing & moving, with important & encouraging content on reviving music in schools & easing post #Brexit cultural touring restrictions.
I’ve joined with civic and faith leaders from across #Exeter to reaffirm our aspirations for our city - where everyone lives in peace, free from intimidation and discrimination, and where we continue to prosper by working together.
Unity over division, hope over fear.
