Improving our transport links, creating jobs and support businesses across Gedling

During Transport Questions today, Gedling’s Conservative Member of Parliament Tom Randall said “There is a widespread view in Gedling that rail services could be improved.

Each month, I report back to you on the work I am doing in Parliament and across Gedling.

Here is my report on January 2022. 

During Treasury Questions on Tuesday 1 February, Gedling’s Conservative Member of Parliament Tom Randall said “I recently visited Severn Trent in Gedling and they told me how impressed they were with the Kickstarters that the company had taken on.”

Tom Randall MP has welcomed the progress of the Conservative Government’s Kickstart Scheme – which has got 70 young people across Gedling into work since its launch in September 2020.

Tom Randall MP has welcomed the publication of the Conservative Government’s £96 billion Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands, which will deliver better transport links and spread prosperity and opportunity decades sooner than previously planned, all while levelling up the country.

Gedling’s Member of Parliament, Tom Randall, has welcomed the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget and Spending Review, which provides the foundations for a stronger economy across every part of the United Kingdom as the country continues its recovery from the pandemic.

This week, my work in Parliament and across Gedling has included:

Dropping into a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for public services

Speaking in debates during the Committee stage of the Elections Bill.

On Tuesday, Gedling’s MP Tom Randall hosted a meeting with the Leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, Cllr Ben Bradley MP, the Council’s Committee Chairman for Transport and Environment, Cllr Neil Clarke, and Colwick’s County Councillor, Cllr Mike Adams, at a potential site for a fourth Trent

Tom Randall MP has welcomed the launch of the Conservative Government’s new Build Back Better High Streets Strategy – which sets out how high streets across Gedling will be transformed into thriving places to live, work and visit after the pandemic.

Earlier this month, Gedling Borough Council submitted a Levelling Up bid to Government, backed by Tom Randall MP, for nearly £20,000,000 of investment into Gedling’s leisure and cultural hub in Arnold, improving Netherfield’s connectivity, and kickstarting Gedling’s high streets by repurposing va