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Local MPs to Host Third Addition of Ground breaking Apprenticeship Fair

Helen Grant MP, Tracey Crouch MP, Helen Whately MP and Tom Tugendhat MP will be hosting the third annual Maidstone Apprenticeship Fair on Friday 7th February at Maidstone Leisure Centre.  The event will give year 11, 12 and 13 students from the local area the opportunity to meet with potential

2020: The Year Ahead

2020 is certain to be an historic year for our sceptered isles. We will leave the European Union and chart a new relationship with our closest geographical neighbours, based on free trade and security co-operation.

MPs Request Call in of 'Inappropriate' Housing Application

Local MPs Tracey Crouch and Helen Grant have formally requested the Secretary of State call in the Gladman application to develop land between Aylesford and Allington. Further to initial correspondence with MHCLG during the election, when TMBC approved the application to build 840 houses on land in

Christmas

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, according to the dulcet tones of the late great Andy Williams on my radio, and so it may be for those of us with family, friends and festive fare abounding.  For others, however, Christmas can magnify the starkness of loneliness and for some, the desper

Thank You

As the dust begins to settle following last week’s General Election, I want to thank people in Maidstone and The Weald for again placing their trust in me as their MP.

Parish Councils

English village community spirit is perhaps most aptly personified by the institution we all know as our Parish Councils.  Right across our green and pleasant land they are the people who turn a village from a collection of houses, lanes and fields into a hub of social cohesion, offering cradle

MP Welcomes Preservation of ‘Lifeline’ Rural Bus Service

A Kent MP has welcomed the decision to protect a crucial rural bus service for school pupils. Helen Grant, Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald, was very concerned to learn that the service, which is mostly used by students who live in Marden to get to schools across Maidstone, was unde

Helen Joins Campaign to find new site for waste recycling centre

A new campaign is afoot in the North of Maidstone involving the controversial and unpopular site of the Allington Incinerator.  A petition has been gaining considerable support from families in the London Road ‘Orchards’ development because of fears that a new waste recycling facility at the in

Maidstone MP Puts Pressure on Train Operators over Thameslink Service Delay

Maidstone’s MP has met with senior rail executives in Parliament to exert pressure over the continued failure to introduce the new City Thameslink Service from Maidstone East. In a meeting with Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) Chief Executive Patrick Verwer and his team, Helen Grant, made clear the l