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Gosling Sports Hall to remain open until July, and possibly for many years
Welwyn Hatfield’s MP and the company that runs the Gosling Sports Park in Welwyn Garden City, have confirmed that the Sports Hall will not now close on March 31st,as had been previously announced. Following public outcry, Grant Shapps MP demanded action from the...
read more‘Join me in Parliament’ says ‘tour guide’ Shapps
Open invitations for trips to Parliament are being sent to every household in Welwyn Hatfield. They come from borough MP Grant Shapps who is staging his latest series of personal tours of the iconic buildings. Evenings start with a talk and Q+A session from Grant in...
read moreStudents give MP Shapps a grilling
School pupils quizzed MP Grant Shapps over a range of issues - including graffiti and community safety. He had been invited to Hatfield Community Free School on Briars Lane by the Year 5 class. The aim was to help the students with a project in which they will be...
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In the sidings! £240m of BRAND NEW unused Great Northern trains (pictured today) sit gathering dust, whilst passengers suffer oldest trains..
Progress in my campaign to expose the £240m of new Great Northern Rail trains (717s) which are gathering dust in the sidings, whilst my commuters..
Just digesting what we know about the Brexit Backstop negotiation tonight & its implication for the vote tomorrow. I hope that this goes beyond..
£200million train cab where drivers can't see out the window
Here’s the scandal of how my Welwyn Hatfield commuters endure Britain’s OLDEST & least reliable trains, whilst a £240million fleet of brand..
Plus new jobs are overwhelmingly FULL-TIME, rather than PART-TIME...
While the employment figures include some people working low hours and some on zero-hours contracts, this is not the driving force behind the recent increases in employment. Over the last year there were 424,000 more full-time workers but only 49,000 more part-timers.
And it turns out zero-hour contracts account for just 2.6% of people in work - and has fallen slightly over the past year...
Figures published last month show that only around 2.6% of people in work were on zero-hours contracts for Oct-Dec 2018 and the number of people on such contracts fell slightly compared with a year earlier.
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Outstanding news on the jobs front...
For the 3 months to January 2019, 76.1% of people aged from 16 to 64 were in employment. This is known as the “employment rate” and the latest figure is the highest since records began.
Progress in campaign to expose £240m new @GTRailUK trains (717s) gathering dust in sidings, whilst commuters suffer OLDEST trains on nation's network (313s). Have escalated to @networkrail & #Govia CEOs - solution in works. Next up...getting new trains to stop at all my stations!
Jeremy Corbyn wrongly claimed at #pmqs manufacturing is in recession. In fact figures out yesterday show Manufacturing Output rose by 0.8% in January https://t.co/4tQhdFZ43D