Dear John I am writing to you regarding today’s announcement of the public sector pay awards for 2020-21. Today, we are accepting the recommendations of the independent pay review bodies and announcing a significant, real terms pay increase between 2-… read more
The so called Recovery and Resilience fund agreed after much wrangling on Monday night will do practically nothing to help EU economies recover from the pandemic policies. There is no pubic analysis of the damage done to large sectors of the EU econom… read more
Sir John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): Could we make a study of essential technologies where dependence on China would leave us very vulnerable and then have a strategy for developing those at home or with our allies? The Secretary of State for Foreign &… read more
The government has recently issued a White Paper setting out how the UK’s single market and customs union will work as we leave the EU’s single market and customs union. The legal powers for our single market stem from the original laws and terms of t… read more
The government has announced the National Funding formula figures for schools and constituencies. These figures tell us how much money the government has allocated per pupil and per school. Councils provide services to local schools and have some powe… read more