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Great British Spring Clean begins today

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. 

Richard speaks in the debate on Obesity

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

The CBI gets it at last – sort 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

Richard asks the Justice Minister about driving down reoffending

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

Over £2million funding announced to tackle rough sleeping in Bedfordshire

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