Henry Smith MP has questioned Theresa May at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons (on Wednesday, 13th February), seeking assurances over the UK’s exit from the European Union on 29th March 2019.

Henry Smith MP has welcomed new figures showing that more than 48,000 people in Crawley are now enrolled in a workplace pension.

The Government’s recent Rough Sleeping Strategy actively plans to halve the rates of rough sleeping by 2022 and to eliminate all rough sleeping completely by 2027. The implementation of the Strategy is to address the causes of rough sleeping in order to prevent it from happening in the first place, and to help get people who are sleeping rough into accommodation. Additional funding is being made to local Councils to intervene sooner in homelessness cases, such as Crawley Borough Council, who are the statutory authority in Crawley for homelessness.

Following meeting with James Brokenshire, Secretary of State for Communities, Crawley MP Henry Smith has welcomed new Government investment to help West Sussex support rough sleepers into safe and stable accommodation where they can rebuild their lives.

Henry Smith MP is encouraging local charities and good causes to apply for over £3 million of funding that has been raised by the players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

We can often see opinion pieces presented as fact, as well as claims/denials and impending warnings of doom presented as news. Outlandish claims may not always be fake news, as on rare occasions they could turn out be true, as after all, a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Henry Smith MP has welcomed new statistics which show that changes to stamp duty introduced last year have benefited over 240,000 people, helping more people to achieve the dream of home ownership.

Henry Smith MP has pledged to become a Bowel Cancer Champion and lead change in Parliament for people affected by the disease, at Bowel Cancer UK’s parliamentary reception in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 30th January.

Figures released this month show wages have risen at their fastest pace in 10 years as employment reaches a record high, with more than 32.5 million people currently in work.

Political extremes are not healthy and I welcome that there is no far-right elected representation in the UK, but the far-left are becoming increasingly powerful which should concern us all. Since Jeremy Corbyn became Labour Leader in September 2015, the far-left have been tightening their control over one of the two main parties of government, with moderates either dropping out or being forced out.
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