Standing up for funding for Witham
Recently, Witham’s MP Priti Patel stood up for better funding for local councils in the Witham constituency. Local councils provide vital services everyday. From bin collections to highway repairs and social care services for adults and children with the most complex needs. They provide the frontline services that many people …
Fighting for a health centre for Witham
During the recent Department for Health & Social Care oral parliamentary question session in the House of Commons, Priti pressed the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for a new healthcare centre in Witham Town to ensure more resources are provided to meet local health needs across …
Priti meets with Greater Anglia bosses
Recently, Witham MP Priti Patel met with the leadership of Greater Anglia to discuss a number of rail issues. During the meeting Ms Patel discussed the successful campaign to save ticket offices from closure, an issue she has campaigned on in Parliament. Priti pressed them on much needed station improvements …
Winner of 2023 Christmas card competition announced!
Priti Patel, MP for Witham, has announced the winner of her annual Christmas card competition. This year Priti was inundated with entries from school children from across the Witham constituency and the successful entry came from Eliza Gardner, aged 8 from St. Andrew’s Junior School Hatfield Peverel. During a visit …
Standing up for schools
Witham MP Priti Patel this week raised concerns with the Education Secretary about local schools impacted by RAAC. During the Department for Education Parliamentary question session, Priti asked for assurances from the Secretary of State that contractors who are building the temporary accommodation for impacted schools deliver these needed replacement …
Priti welcomes refusal of Goldhanger planning application
Witham MP Priti Patel has welcomed the decision taken by Maldon District Council to refuse to grant planning permission to a developer who wanted to build a large housing development outside of the settlement boundary in Goldhanger. The plans for new dwellings on a site off of Head Street were …
Local food producers celebrated in the House of Commons
Witham MP Priti Patel has celebrated local businesses and food producers in Essex and the contribution they will be making to Christmas meals in the UK and abroad. Speaking during questions to ministers from the Department for Business and Trade, Priti mentioned world famous jam producers Wilkin and Sons in …
Priti gives backing to local grassroots sports investment
Priti Patel, Member of Parliament for Witham has given her backing to local grassroots sports investment as part of a recent meeting with The Football Foundation at Witham Sports Ground. The Football Foundation is the country’s largest sports charity, with their funding coming from the Premier League, the FA as …
Rural communities deserve better access to broadband
During the most recent Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Parliamentary question session, Priti pressed Ministers on concerns local residents had raised with the impact of the planned retirement of the public switched telephone network (PSTN), and support for rural communities who currently have access to slow or poor broadband …
Pull the plug on pylons!
Priti raised the National Grid’s disastrous plans to impose over 100 miles of pylons and overhead powerlines between Norwich and Tilbury. Ms Patel urged the Government to do the work; commit to delivering the offshore grid that will provide more investment and growth in renewables and pull the plug on …