Earlier this year, the Government launched a £3 billion fund to help homeowners upgrade their homes and save up to £600 a year on their energy bills. Today, the Green Homes Grant has launched and is open to applications.
Today the Prime Minister announced a major expansion of post-18 education and training to level up and prepare workers for a post-Covid economy.
A New Lifetime Skills Guarantee from April will provide adults in England, without an A-Level or equivalent qualification, the opportunity to take up a fr
People living in and around Bedford can benefit from a range of regeneration and growth projects thanks to a Government scheme to respond to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
The town is one of more than 100 places chosen to benefit from the transformative £3.6 billion Towns Fund, with each a
Richard has called on residents in North East Bedfordshire to download the new NHS Covid-19 app, which has now launched across England and Wales following rigorous testing and successful trials.
The NHS Covid-19 app will alert users if they have been close to someone who later tests positive for co
Richard has welcomed the Government’s landmark new Kickstart scheme and calls on local employers to sign up and help young people into work. The £2 billion scheme has been designed to ensure young people at risk of long term unemployment have opportunity and hope by creating quality, government
Richard has urged all those in North East Bedfordshire who are eligible for the flu jab to get one this winter, as the Government launches its drive to vaccinate 30 million people.
This comes as new research from Public Health England suggests that people who tested positive for both flu and Covid-
Please see below for Richard's comments on the role of Parliament during the coronavirus pandemic:
"The experience of COVID has already made dramatic changes to the conduct of UK politics. The process of democracy has changed with Members of Parliament remotely “zooming” in rather than sittin
