Cost of Living Support

The changing of the clocks at the weekend to British Summer Time has been a welcome return to lighter evenings, and the recent sunshine has been something of a relief from the grim news of recent weeks.

Families in Brentwood and Ongar are in line for £1,191 of cost increases from today, 1st April.

Today [Tuesday 18 March 2025] Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the Conservative Party, announced the Policy Renewal Programme. We are living off the inheritance of previous generations. For three centuries, every era in our country’s history left a better legacy for its children. The greatnes

Madam Deputy Speaker, on the day he took office, the Prime Minister said he wanted to restore trust to British politics “with actions, not words”. Well today, his actions speak for themselves. With a Budget that contains broken promise after broken promise. And reveals the simple trut

Since last writing for the Ongar News, the Labour Government has made a host of announcements, many of which will impact people here in Ongar.

The Conference recess, which takes place at this time of year to enable the political party conferences to be held up and down the country, offers a good opportunity to get out and about in Brentwood and Ongar.In the coming days I’ll be posting pictures and information about my conversation with the

This week is Pensions Awareness Week.

I will this afternoon vote against Labour’s plan to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners in Brentwood and Ongar after the Conservatives forced a Labour u-turn on holding a vote in Parliament. Under Labour's original plan to axe the payments for more than 10 million older people across the countr

The last week has seen children return to school and Parliamentarians return to Westminster after the summer break. There have been some (positive) changes for schools locally. Ingatestone Infants and Juniors go back to the same schools but now under Academy status, and I wish the staff and pu

While the summer has been mostly quiet, with Members of Parliament setting up their offices again after July’s General Election and catching up on constituency casework and visits, one of the Labour Government’s first actions - to scrap the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners &n