Your Conservative Crawley Borough Council has published its budget plans for 2012/13. The budget includes a Council Tax Freeze for the second year running and continues the six-year track record of the lowest Council Tax rises in all of Sussex.
A new national police non-emergency telephone number ‘101’ has been introduced for Crawley, the whole Sussex Police area and has now been successfully rolled out across every force.
Henry Smith is supporting the launch of Chance to be Chancellor 2012 and is calling on schools and young people in Crawley to take up in the challenge to learn about, and share their opinions on Budget 2012.
Crawley Council has published its budget plans for 2012/13. There is a Council Tax Freeze for the second year running and this continues the six-year track record of the lowest Council Tax rises in all of Sussex
Henry Smith praised the management of Gatwick and the thousands of Crawley residents who work at the airport in a speech in the House of Commons last night.
In an interview in today’s Daily Mail, local MP Henry Smith, expressed his shock at the apparent number of local jobs that are being advertised abroad in countries such as Romania.
Almost two years of work by Ifield Councillor Ali Burke and Crawley Borough Council officers, has resulted in a successful bid of £750,000 to the Budget Advisory Group for funds to be invested in Ifield West – which Cabinet on 8th February is asked to approve as a recommendation to the budget-making Full Council on 29th February.
This week Henry Smith signed a Book of Commitment in the House of Commons, in doing so pledging his commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring those who died during the Holocaust.
Henry Smith has welcomed the news of a ten year deal between Royal Mail and the Post Office, securing the future of services in Crawley.
Henry Smith has parliamentary event in the House of Commons, organised by Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, for the launch of their new report, Preventing Babies’ Deaths: what needs to be done.

