Peter Aldous calls for Lowestoft to be given the same designation as other East Anglian towns with similar challenges, to enable the town to submit bids for regeneration funding from the levelling-up fund and the community renewal fund.
Peter Aldous backs the Bill which will improve collaboration and the integration of local health and care services, but urges the Government to retain the existing healthcare boundaries, with the Waveney area remaining in partnership with Norfolk.
Peter Aldous calls on the Government to set out a route map to setting up a world-class fisheries management system that will benefit both the marine environment and local people in coastal communities such as Lowestoft, and highlights the need for more support for the inshore fleet.
Peter Aldous raises concerns that funding arrangements for early years education are skewed against providers operating in deprived areas and calls on the Government to ensure all children, whatever their background, have ready access to high-quality and properly funded early years education.
Speaking in a debate on changes to NHS Integrated Care System boundaries, Peter Aldous raises concerns that splitting health administration from neighbouring Great Yarmouth would be a highly disruptive distraction and demotivating for hard-working staff and asks if local perception that the decision has already been made is correct?
Peter Aldous welcomes Government action to lay the foundations for a world-leading clean steel industry and calls for a border carbon adjustment on imported goods based on their carbon content; clear targets for the use of clean steel in infrastructure projects; and the promotion of a clean steel demonstrator project.
Peter Aldous calls on the Government to see through proven strategies such as the Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth enterprise zone and calls for reallocation of the existing footprint of the enterprise zone around Lowestoft port. He also urges the Government to back the Suffolk and Norfolk bid to be a trailblazer for its new local skills improvement plans.