Last week in Parliament, Youth Employment UK and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Youth Employment invited MPs to attend a drop-in session to understand how they can support young people and youth employment in their constituency.

Carers Choice, an Essex-based charity that have supported carers since 1982 have been awarded the £10,000 grant for their Get Me In! project.

This week, the Government passed legislation for a comprehensive ban on third-party sale of kittens and puppies, otherwise known as ‘Lucy’s Law’.  Lucy was a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who died in 2016 after suffering terrible conditions on a puppy farm, where dogs are often used by cruel bree

Castle Point MP Rebecca Harris has met with the Chief Constable of Essex Police, B J Harrington to discuss local concerns about crime in Castle Point. She also discussed future plans for strategic policing in Essex and planned increases in the deployment of officers.

Rebecca Harris MP recently attended a reception in Parliament to show her support for Christian Aid Week (12-18 May, caweek.org).

On 7th May, Rebecca Harris MP attended an event in Parliament to hear about new research from Versus Arthritis which shows that 43% of people with arthritis struggle with tasks at home for more than two years before finding out about equipment they were eligible for.

Under the current Government, there are more people in work in every region of the United Kingdom than ever before and wages are currently growing at their fastest pace in almost a decade.

151,000 people in the East of England working on the National Living Wage received a 5 per cent pay rise today, in the biggest pay increase for low paid workers in 20 years.

On Monday, the Speaker broke with hundreds of years of Parliamentary convention by allowing backbench MPs rather than the Government to come up with their own plans for Brexit, and to vote for them in a series of votes.

Local MP Rebecca Harris and Conservative councillors at Castle Point Borough Council have welcomed the Government’s £1.52 million funding for the Canvey Island Seafront Regeneration project, providing investment and boosting our local economy.