With lockdown sadly cases of domestic abuse have risen. In order to help support victims councils in England will received an extra £125 million. Oxfordshire County Council is to receive £1,141,151 and South Oxfordshire District Council £33,540.
The latest figures available on people claiming unemployment related benefits show that the number in the Henley Constituency is about half of the national rate. There were just under 2,000 claimants in December which was 3.4% of the local population. The equivalent UK claimant rate was 6.3%.
This week John was this week elected a Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The role involves him in acting as the equivalent of a deputy speaker of the Assembly.
John joined forces with fellow Trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, to speak out on the urgent need to learn the lessons from the Holocaust whatever ones politics. Their joint article was published in The Mirror.
John has welcomed the Government’s new £760 million funding pledge to help deliver the next phase of East West Rail, benefiting people across the constituency.
The COVID vaccination programme is one of the most optimistic things that has emerged in recent times. Inevitably there are many questions around it, and I have received a lot of emails and calls on different issues.
John has been invited by the Prime Minister to become the Leader of the British delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The British delegation is a cross-party group of MPs drawn from the Conservative, Labour, SNP and DUP parties. It consists of 18 MPs together with an
I look forward to 2021 with great optimism. At the end of December we had an approved vaccine against Covid-19 already rolling out and a second approved by the regulatory authority to be rolled out early in the New Year. A third had been approved by the US administration.
