Peter Aldous welcomes initiatives to encourage women and girls into STEM careers but highlights the need for a career-long pathway to enable them to realise their full potential including fair recruitment processes, alumni networks and retention programmes.
Peter Aldous calls on the Government to encourage innovative techniques to decrease the environmental impact of detonating UXOs and calls for a review the regulatory framework to pursue an ecosystem approach that takes full account of the increasing and varied demand on our marine resources.
Peter Aldous welcomes the “Skills for Jobs” White Paper and asks the Government to set out the timetable and the criteria for selecting the trailblazers for local skills improvement plans so that the colleges, chambers of commerce and local enterprise partnership in Suffolk and Norfolk can put in a bid.
Peter Aldous highlights the logistical challenges facing colleges such as East Coast College as they prepare to test 5,000 students and 650 members of staff ahead of reopening and calls on the Government to work with colleges in a collaborative and flexible way to address the obstacles as they arise.
Peter Aldous welcomes the PM’s cautious approach to ending lockdown and seeks confirmation that the plan is co-ordinated with the forthcoming Budget with support for badly affected businesses in sectors such as hospitality and the £20 uplift to universal credit.
Peter Aldous welcomes additional support for local councils in the short term, but calls for the implementation of the fair funding review to deliver fairer settlements for councils all around the country and tackle the funding gap.
Peter Aldous calls for an urgent review of the police funding formula to bring Suffolk in line with similar counties, properly taking into account the levels of wages and incomes, and as part of a fair and transparent levelling-up process.