Peter Aldous welcomes the Government’s plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry and calls on the Government to provide funding for a new treatment and training facility in the Norfolk and Waveney integrated care board area similar to the University of Suffolk’s innovative service that is about to open in Ipswich.
Peter Aldous highlights the enormous number of job opportunities presented by Sizewell C and asks what the Government is doing to ensure that local people have every opportunity to work on the project and can acquire the skills needed to do so.
Peter Aldous calls on the Government to develop a national coastal strategy to make the most of coastal communities’ significant potential for job creation in the renewable energy, tourism, fishing and maritime sectors. Specifically, locally, he calls on the Government to adjust the Lowestoft enterprise zone boundaries, invest in education and skills and very importantly at the current time coastal defences.
Peter Aldous asks the Government what is being done to help SMEs and new businesses that are finding it difficult to open a bank account and to then obtain the support and services that used to be available in the rapidly diminishing branch network.
Peter Aldous outlines the reasons why he is supporting the Bill, but he cautions that it must be part of a wider long-term strategy that is required to attract the private investment needed to modernise and decarbonise our energy system.
Peter Aldous outlines the impact of the crisis in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) education in Suffolk and backs calls for a national review of funding and how we provide this vulnerable group of children and young people with the education that they need and deserve.
Peter Aldous highlights the potential East Anglia, Suffolk and Lowestoft have to significantly contribute to UK energy security, affordability, and net zero goals through projects like Sizewell C, offshore wind, and hydrogen. He calls on the Government to invest in skills training at East Coast College and infrastructure upgrades in Lowestoft port to ensure that this huge potential is recognised.
Following the Minister’s statement on the Post Office Horizon scandal following the ITV dramatisation, Peter Aldous asks how many sub-postmasters were simply bullied and intimidated into keeping quiet and paying up and have therefore not previously come forward and what justice and recompense will be available to them.