Therese visited CookieBarista today, a new addition to Felixstowe High Street. Offering a great selection of homemade cakes and cookies, as well as considerable variations of the ever more popular Bubble Tea.
Therese welcomed the government’s ‘excellent plan’ for NHS dentistry ‘that is exactly what patients in Suffolk have been waiting to hear’ in a contribution in Parliament today.
Therese met the Head of Corporate Relations and the Customer Care Executive of Barclays bank today to protest the impending closure of the Leiston branch and impress upon them the strength of local feeling to keep it open.
Therese is asking for an urgent meeting with the Post Office Minister, Kevin Hollinrake and Post Office Executives following the news that Post Office Ltd has decided to unilaterally close the Kelsale outreach service and make changes to the wider network.
Therese today hosted a meeting of farmers from across Suffolk Coastal who received presentations from the Rural Payments Agency, Defra and Natural England on the Environmental Land Management Scheme and other grants available to help farmers to be sustainable and productive, for themselves and fo
Yesterday in Parliament, Therese asked Housing Secretary, Michael Gove to meet her to discuss the sell-off of affordable housing stock to second homeowners by Flagship.
On Friday, Therese met the County Council Cabinet member for highways, Cllr Paul West, to discuss Potters Bridge. Officers from the County Council and the Environment Agency had met earlier that day.
Thérèse has organised a seminar for Suffolk Coastal farmers to learn directly from Defra and the Rural Payments Agency on how they can access the Sustainable Farming Initiative and other government funding to help farmers and the environment.