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Broadband: Government achievements: ● Superfast broadband is now available to more than 94 per cent of UK homes and businesses, up from 45 per cent in 2010. ●...

The only way we are going to tackle the worrying increase in homelessness and the wider housing crisis is by building more homes. That was a key point in my...

Today I paid another visit to Kirby Misperton, where I came face to face with as many as 300 protestors. Many of them were local, but there were some from the...

Congratulations to all our winners of the prestigious White Rose Awards this year. Scampston Hall and Walled Garden were the well-deserved winners of the Small...

Hambleton District Council is one of five North Yorkshire councils to have won £196,000 from the Ministry of Defence to strengthen the delivery of the Armed...

Today, I met with the Exchequer Secretary, Andrew Jones MP, to make the case for the additional monies we need for the A64 – that’s an extra £115m, so £250m in...

I was shocked to hear some of the stories from people living in Kirby Misperton on BBC Radio York today. They talked about being bullied, intimidated...

It was an honour to host a Living Wage event in Parliament today and I was pleased to see so many of my colleagues there. The good news is that we have 3600...

I have today been reassured by the Environment Agency (EA) that an unpleasant odour in Kirby Misperton village was not a gas leak, but the result of a cleaning...