July Update
General Election 2024 This is my first newsletter since the General Election. I was delighted to be re-elected to serve a further term as Member of Parliament for Maldon and would like to thank all my constituents who gave me their support. It is a huge privilege to be elected to Parliament and I will […]
Winter Fuel Payment
I have had a number of constituents contact me about the Chancellor’s recent decision to remove Winter Fuel Payments from older people. I am appalled that one of tne of the first acts of this Government has been to scrap the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners. Unless in receipt of pension credit or […]
Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, visits Action for Family Carers Centre
Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, visited the Action for Family Carers Centre at Brickhouse Farm Community Centre, Maldon, with Mayor of Maldon, Cllr Andrew Lay. Cllr Lay presented a cheque on behalf of the Mayor’s Charities Appeal. Sir John met Chair, Kath Vale, and members of staff and volunteers (pictured below) as well as […]
Maldon District Council announce the replacement of the Pontoon at the Town Steps in Burnham on Crouch
Maldon District Council have recently announced, thanks to funding from the previous Conservative Government, that work will begin on the replacement pontoon at the Town Steps in Burnham-on-Crouch on 5th August. The pontoon will be replaced after the original structure was damaged in Storm Eunice. Installation will take up to two weeks and it will be […]
Sir John Whittingdale visits the RHS Garden at Hyde Hall
Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, visited the RHS Garden at Hyde Hall in Rettendon during the annual Flower Show. Sir John was shown around by Head of Site, Ian Le Gros (pictured below). The garden at Hyde Hall has expanded so that it now covers 365 acres and the annual Flower Show is hugely […]
Sir John Whittingdale raises issue of new developments in Maldon and Heybridge, and Hammonds Farm
John Whittingdale Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) An additional 3,000 homes are currently being built in Maldon and Heybridge in my constituency, and Liberal Democrat-controlled Chelmsford city council wants to build another 3,000 at Hammonds Farm in my constituency, yet the local roads and health and education services are all under intolerable pressure, so what will the Secretary […]
Russian Sanctions Regime
John Whittingdale Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his early statement calling on the Russian Government to release the British citizen Vladimir Kara-Murza. Will he look at what further sanctions might be used to put pressure on the Russian Government to release him and other political prisoners, such as the American journalist Evan Gershkovich? Stephen Doughty Minister […]
Pylons
I have had a number of constituents contact me about the imposition Pylons in our area. I am a member of the OFFSET group of MPs who are campaigning against these plans. The Great Grid Upgrade is an enormous and necessary upgrade to our electricity grid to serve the UK’s growing energy needs – long […]
Sir John Whittingdale and Dame Priti Patel write to the new Health Secretary, urging action on St Peter’s Hospital in Maldon
Following the recent General Election, Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon and Dame Priti Patel, MP for Witham, have written a joint letter to the newly appointed Labour Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting. They did so urging him and the new Labour Government to make the matter of St Peter’s […]
Pancreatic Cancer
I have had a number of constituents contact me about support for people affected by pancreatic cancer. The UK ranks 15th out of 16 European countries for five-year pancreatic cancer survival, so it is clear that more must be done to reduce the survival gap between pancreatic cancer and other cancers. For pancreatic cancer in particular, […]