Diary - Defence Secretary lobbied PM for more money for our Armed Forces Tuesday, 26 March, 2024 The final day before the Easter break. A quick annual check with the Doc before heading into the Commons for a busy morning. I had two important virtual meetings, one a surgery issue, the other about the migrant barge in Portland Port. At 1445, I was in the Grimond Room for another session of our Defence Committee. Today we took evidence from the Defence Secretary, the Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP. He... Diary
Statement - Covid-19 Strategy by the PM 11th May 2020 Good evening and thank you for joining us for this Downing Street press conference. First of all, I want to update you on the latest data in our fight against... Speeches
Diary - PM statement takes tentative step out of lock-down 10th May 2020 Get back to work if you can't do the job at home, but don't use public transport, the PM told the country this evening on television. He went on to unveil a... Diary
Diary - VE Day 8th May 2020 VE Day marked the end of the World War Two in Europe and was commemorated today as best as people could bearing in mind the lock-down. It must have been an... Diary
W2W - time to rebuild our fishing industry 8th May 2020 ON the 1st of January next year we regain control of our fishing waters, and not before time. EU policy resulted in the devastation of our fleet, with those... Articles
Diary - shut-down hitting economy hard 7th May 2020 Another sunny day. A conference call with my parliamentary team began the day. Some excellent news came through for hard-up dairy farmers. I, many colleagues... Diary
Press reliease - MP welcomes new fund for dairy farmers 7th May 2020 DRAX DELIGHTED AT DEFRA FUND TO SUPPORT HARD PRESSED DAIRY FARMERS Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, has said how delighted he is that South Dorset’s dairy... Media
Defra Select Committee - welcomes new funding for hard-pressed dairy farmers 7th May 2020 Chair of the House of Commons EFRA Select Committee, Neil Parish MP, has welcomed new measures announced by DEFRA to support dairy farmers through the... Westminster News
Diary - PM back at PMQs 6th May 2020 With many constituency matters to deal with, my team and I continue to deal with all of them as best we can. Many inquiries are about funding and of course... Diary
Defence Committee - calling for more clarity from MOD on protecting our veterans 6th May 2020 Defence Committee: Chair Tobias Ellwood writes to MoD seeking clarity on legislation on the prosecution of service personnel and veterans The Chair of the... Westminster News