188,000 workers in East Midlands have received a pay increase this year thanks to increases to the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage brought in by the Conservative Government.

Andrew Bridgen MP has welcomed the announcement that North West Leicestershire will receive £419,184 to support iconic cultural and heritage organisations and independent cinemas as they reopen and recover from coronavirus.

Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire, has welcomed the launch of NCS Connect, a free resource that offers teens a bitesize digital version of the traditional NCS programme.

The Countryside Alliance has teamed up with Gigaclear, the ultrafast broadband provider, to understand the biggest challenges rural businesses are facing, before, during and after the pandemic, due to inadequate internet speeds.

Andrew Bridgen MP has backed the Home Secretary’s plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK’s asylum system in decades.

Improvements can be made to local high streets across North West Leicestershire to help them safely and successfully open after lockdown thanks to Government funding.

Listen to Andrew Bridgen takes part in a discussion on RTÉ Radio’s Today with Claire Byrne on the EU/UK Vaccines Row.

Andrew Bridgen MP has welcomed the announcement that the Conservative Government is making available over £130 million to tackle serious violent crime – including murder and knife crime – in the coming year.

Last week, the Prime Minister set out the Government’s roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions in England, and although I believe we should be driven by data rather than dates, what it does offer is offer hope that this will be the irreversible end of lockdown.