In her weekly column, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Sussex Alison Bennett looks at the shocking rise in sewage dumping near Sussex's Blue Flag beaches, and the funding crisis in the hospice sector.
I thought I would share a little of what I have been up to during recess. I realise that this may not be typical, because as a new MP, much of my time has been spent on sorting out a constituency office, and recruiting people to work for me.
A significant amount of the work of an MP is ‘casework’ - helping people who come to you with specific problems. Over the summer, much of my focus has been on supporting constituents who urgently need my help.
Since my election as MP for Mid Sussex, numerous residents in Haywards Heath have contacted me with concerns about missed postal deliveries. To better understand the situation, I recently visited the Haywards Heath Sorting Office
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Very often when someone tells me about their experience of the NHS, they will say how wonderful the people were who looked after them. So I was concerned last week by the announcement that, in order to tackle a £128m gap in its budget...
“Are you ok?” are the words that open an article written by my friend Hina Bokhari about Islamophobia and what the last two weeks have been like to be a British Muslim. In the article Hina calls on us all to be allies and to call out Islamophobia...
Last week was a bit like the end of term for parliament before it began its summer recess. During August I will mostly be working at home, and these weeks will give me some time to focus on getting my office staffed and up and running.
Last week we passed the 300th day since the 7 October attacks by Hamas resulting in the seizure of so many Israeli hostages, and the start of a brutal and remorseless war where tens of thousands of people have died.
Alison Bennett MP is hiring three roles to support her office both here in Mid Sussex, and at Westminster.
In my maiden speech delivered in the House of Commons on Friday, July 26, I celebrated a few of Mid Sussex’s brilliant voluntary organisations.
Welcome to my Monday Mail for 29th July 2024. As your Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Sussex, I write a short email each Monday sharing what I have been doing and thinking about in the past week.