Peter Aldous commends the Norfolk and Waveney clinical commissioning group, local NHS staff and volunteers who enabled 1,000 people to be vaccinated at Kirkley Mill on Sunday and seeks assurances on the supply of vaccines and improvements to the online booking system.
Peter Aldous highlights the distress caused to victims, of violent and sexual offences in particular, by the extended delay in commencement of a trial which can now be between a year and 18 months and calls for a Nightingale court in Suffolk to increase capacity in Crown courts.
Peter Aldous calls on the Prime Minister to support the self-employed who set up their businesses after April 2019 and urges the Government to emulate the Northern Ireland Government’s newly self-employed support scheme, which is subject to straightforward criteria and guards against fraud.
Peter Aldous calls on the Government to make arrangements for students and apprentices taking technical and vocational exams a high priority, especially those who need to return to buildings because on-site assessments are a key part of a course.
Peter Aldous calls on the Government to drop the 45% target of UDAs (units of dental activity) it has imposed on dentists for January, February and March and instead work with dentists to come up with a short-term plan to get through the covid crisis and then a long-term solution to provide full national coverage of NHS dentistry, and improve recruitment and retention of highly trained professional staff.
Peter Aldous highlights challenges for social mobility in coastal communities such as Lowestoft and calls for co-ordinated action, across all Government Departments, to ensure that children in seaside towns have every opportunity to realise their full potential.
Peter Aldous calls on the Government to set out a strategy to make hydrogen a central component in the transition to net zero with a support programme for the manufacture and deployment of UK fuel cell technologies, which matches world-class technology with investors of scale.