Friday marks the start of the 2021 Great British Spring Clean which is calling on litter pickers to help with the million-mile mission.
Keep Britain Tidy has based its #MillionMileMission goal on the idea that it takes the average person 20 minutes to walk a mile whilst litter picking.
Today, Richard spoke in the House of Commons debate on implementing the 2020 Obesity Strategy.
Richard Fuller, MP for North East Bedfordshire and member of the Business Select Committee said:
I spoke in the debate to raise concerns highlighted to me by local firm Jordans and farmers in my co
In the remaining stages of the Environment Bill this week, Richard is supporting New Clause 16, making protection of biodiversity a condition for planning permission and Amendment 41, allowing planning authorities to take unlawful tree felling by landowners into account when considering plannin
Last week, Richard issued a Named Day Question to the Department of Transport about the distribution of East West Rail postcards during the 2019 consultation.
The Department responded on 25th May with the following reply:
"The Department has had no specific discussions on the provis
On Tuesday, the Business Select Committee began its inquiry into “Liberty Steel and the future of the UK Steel Industry”.
Liberty Steel is part of the Gupta Family Group (GFG), a global business empire that has been in the news because of the failure of Greensill Capital, which had supplied much of
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has been wrong on so many of the big geo-political decisions for the United Kingdom that it was with some unease that I reached for their latest “landmark” economic plan, “Seize the Moment”, released today
Let me start with an important positive: it seems
This week, Richard asked the Justice Minister for his backing of Festus Akinbusoye's plans to champion addiction recovery programmes for low-risk offenders in order to break the spiral of repeat offending
Richard Fuller, MP for North East Bedfordshire said:
I welcome the plans Festus, our&nb
This week, Richard has asked a Named Day Question of the Department for Transport about the distribution of EWR postcards during the 2019 consultation.
Richard Fuller, MP for North East Bedfordshire, said:
After a patient period of waiting by many of my constituents for the data from EWR dem
Richard has welcomed an extra £1,646,310 for Bedford Borough and £512,801 for Central Bedfordshire to tackle rough sleeping in Bedfordshire.
The funding will come from the £203 million Rough Sleeping Initiative to help people off the streets and will be allocated to councils acr
Last year, Richard was pleased to sign the Alzheimer's Research UK pledge to double research funding into dementia - Richard Fuller - North East Bedfordshire | Alzheimer's Research UK (alzheimersresearchuk.org)
The Government’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 contained the commitment to spend