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Start Up Loans Scheme widened to help more small businesses

Richard has welcomed the news that the Start Up Loans Programme has delivered 139 loans in North East Bedfordshire, worth £1,405,898 since it started 10 years ago and that it has been widened to help even more small businesses.. Start Up Loans was established as a £10m pilot scheme by Lord Young in

Get involved in Restart A Heart Day on Sunday 16 October

On 16 October, the Resuscitation Council and an alliance of partners including the British Heart Foundation, British Red Cross, St John Ambulance, the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, NHS England and others, will come together for 'Restart A Heart Day' to increase public awareness of cardi

Richard celebrates National Hedgerow Week

This week (10-17th October) is National Hedgerow Week - a chance to celebrate hedgerows and to highlight the incredible contribution hedgerows make to halting biodiversity decline and tackling climate change. Richard Fulle MP, one of 66 CPRE, The Countryside Charity, Hedgerow Heroes said: Si

Unemployment hit its lowest rate in nearly 50 years

This week's Office for National Statistics (ONS) labour market figures showed an employment rate of 75.5% and an unemployment rate of 3.5%, the lowest it has been in nearly 50 years. Welcoming the news, Richard Fuller MP said: New data shows that unemployment fell to 3.5 per cent in Aug