{"id":4560,"date":"2025-07-11T16:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:14:03","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-mp-visits-c-m-precision-ltd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4560","title":{"rendered":"Visit to C&amp;M Precision Ltd"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4560\" class=\"elementor elementor-4560\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43a9733b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"43a9733b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7da174f6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7da174f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale visited C&amp;M Precision Ltd, a precision engineering business supplying a wide range of key industries such as Mining, Aerospace, and Oil &amp; Gas. C &amp; M was founded in 1991 by Managing Director, John Cable, and is based at Mill Lane Industrial Estate in Fullbridge, Maldon.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sir John is pictured with John Cable on a tour of the factory floor.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onehitcnc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Home &#8211; C&amp;M Precision Ltd &#8211; CNC TURNING SPECIALISTS<\/a><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"886\" class=\"wp-image-4561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4756-1024x886.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Sir John said: \u201cSME manufacturing companies like C&amp;M play a vital role in the supply chain on which the UK\u2019s economic performance depends. Yet too often, they are overlooked by Government whose policies are focussed on the largest employers. I will take the message back to Government that far greater attention needs to paid to the impact of policies on SMEs with a dedicated Minister for Manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"861\" class=\"wp-image-4562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4755-1024x861.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4755-1024x861.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4755-300x252.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4755-768x646.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4755.jpeg 1206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit to C&#038;M Precision Ltd in Maldon to meet staff and see work supporting key industries including aerospace, mining and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}