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New town councillor congratulated

MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, today congratulated the latest member of the Beverley Town Council.

Cllr Dominic Peacock will represent the Minster South Ward after a by-election was held on Thursday, February 4.

MP calls on PM to explain unfair health funding

Graham Stuart MP has accused the Prime Minister of avoiding answering questions on the unfair health funding in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The Beverley and Holderness MP was called on by the Speaker to ask a question during Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons.

MP fights for fairer health funding

Every man woman and child in Beverley and Holderness has less spent on their health than nearly anywhere in the rest of the country, according to evidence revealed by Graham Stuart MP.

Residents are hit twice as the Primary Care Trust receives around £85 less per person than the national average because it falls foul of [...]

MP faces students at University of Hull

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Yet again Graham Stuart MP has faced questions from school pupils learning about politics.

Graham joined Diana Wallis MEP, Austin Mitchell MP and Professor of War Studies Caroline Kennedy-Pipe for an event held at the University of Hull entitled Parties [...]

MP praises pupils across Beverley and Holderness as schools come in the top third nationally and promises to fight the funding gap

Key Stage Two

MP for Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart, today paid tribute to the hard work of pupils and teachers across the constituency as schools again achieved highly in Key Stage Two tests.

But he said the results had been achieved ‘in spite of’ the area getting less to spend on each child’s education than [...]

Call to protect pensioners from plans to scrap benefits.

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Fears as many as 4,060 pensioners could lose their disability benefits across Beverley and Holderness have been raised by MP Graham Stuart.

Graham voiced his opposition to Gordon Brown’s new plans to scrap disability benefits for the elderly.

MP condemns Ed Balls over the choice of new Children’s Commissioner

Westminster

Ed Balls, the Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families, has been criticised by Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart for his handling of the the appointment of Dr Maggie Atkinson as Children’s Commissioner for England.

Graham, a member of the influential Children, Schools and Families Committee , raised concerns about Dr Atkinson’s willingness to stand [...]

Reverse the rise of the ‘surveillance state’ says Graham Stuart

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A future Conservative Government will drastically scale back the intrusive and ineffective ‘Big Brother’ state, MP Graham Stuart, said today.

He said: “The Government’s approach to our personal privacy is the worst of all worlds – intrusive, enormously expensive yet it doesn’t work. Labour’s surveillance state and over-reliance on databases has exposed [...]

Graham Stuart expenses published

Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, today published details of his parliamentary expenses on his website.

Graham has published his expense claims for the past four years. These cover the Communications Allowance, Additional Costs Allowance and Incidental Expenses Provision. The claims have been redacted, only so as to protect sensitive information like bank account numbers, addresses [...]

Whitehall must give East Riding a fairer deal and help freeze council tax

Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, has called for wasteful government spending on advertising and public sector consultants to be cut – in order to free up funds to help freeze council tax bills in the East Riding. Local taxpayers in Scotland have benefited from a council tax freeze yet again this year.

Soaring council tax under [...]