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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Following the Ministerial statement on the impact of Storm Henk on communities across the UK, Peter Aldous highlights damage done on the East Anglian coast by storms over the past three months, in particular in Pakefield, and raises concerns that flood prevention work is at risk of being delayed by red tape, as it is deemed urgent rather than an emergency.
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Peter Aldous calls on the Government to establish a comprehensive and urgent national strategy to address the serious and specific challenges of coastal erosion with centralised ministerial oversight for floods, coastal erosion, climate change, and green finance.