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Following months of lobbying and campaign work, Rory and Chair of the APPG on Local Democracy, has called on Government to recognise the significantly higher costs faced by local authorities in rural areas in a backbench debate on Monday. The debate precedes a local government financial settlement bill for 2013-14 which faces a vote by […]
Transcript There is the possibility that those on the Front Bench will have a weary cynicism about this debate—a feeling that statistics are being thrown around, that special pleading is going on, names of councils being showered down on them, and figures of 50% or 2% and different definitions and so on being mentioned, but […]
Rory welcomed the news that local family-run business – the Llama Karma Kafe – has been crowned regional champion in the Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the “Rural Oscars”. Mary Walker and her family who run the cafe will now travel down to Westminster on March 13th to receive the regional award, and find out if […]
The six Cumbrian MPs Sir Tony Cunningham MP, Tim Farron MP, Jamie Reed MP, John Stevenson MP, Rory Stewart MP and John Woodcock MP in association with Cumbria Tourism and Taste Cumbria, will together host a day in Parliament celebrating Cumbria and raising Cumbria’s profile, on Wednesday 13th February in the Jubilee Room at the […]
‘This was clearly a very difficult decision. I know that many supporters of the repository will be very disappointed, but I feel that this is such an important issue that the county councillors had every reason to be cautious. ‘The fundamental question here was, “would the repository have been safe”? Parts of the waste will […]
Following concerns raised by a number of constituents, Rory has visited an area on Fell End Clouds near Ravenstonedale, where Natural England has outlined plans to erect fencing to protect areas of land marked as an SSSI and to reintroduce a specific breed of cattle to the fell. Local residents have raised concerns over the […]
Following a campaign led by Rory, and with technology, pioneered by Cumbrian communities, OFCOM – the telecoms regulator – has now announced its multi-billion pound “spectrum auction”. The auction target – of covering 98 per cent of the British population, rather than the current “effective” 89 per cent – was agreed after a parliamentary motion […]
Rory has welcomed the news that both Wigton Youth Station and Eden Sight Support are to receive Big Lottery Fund grants to support their on-going work within the local community. Wigton Youth Station is to receive a £10,000 grant which will be used to fund weekly sessions with ‘hard to engage’ young women displaying anti-social […]
Rory has, following a meeting on Monday specially convened by the Eden Area Secondary Headteachers (EASH) group, said that he is delighted to have been instrumental in brokering greater dialogue between the schools and Cumbria County Council in relation to the schools’ ongoing concerns about the National Schools Funding Formula. The meeting involved head-teachers and […]
Rory this week celebrated Wigton’s ‘Alternative Takeaway’ win in the inaugural British Kebab Awards held in Parliament. The Alternative Takeaway beat off competition from over 80 nominees to be named the Best Regional Takeaway. The British Kebab Awards, held in Parliament on Monday night, were the first of their kind and designed to celebrate and […]