CRISPIN BLUNT CALLS ADJOURNMENT DEBATE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS TO DEMAND ACTION ON REDHILL LINE RAILWAY SERVICE

A number of constituents have contacted me to express their concerns about the ongoing oil exploration taking place at Horse Hill in the extreme south of the constituency.

Update 15th October 2018: Following pressure from the community and my intervention to the Immigration Minister, I am delighted to share that the Home Office has taken the decision to grant my constituent, Dr Awai Leave to Remain.This is fantastic news both for her and East Surrey Hospital.

During the summer Parliamentary recess, I have once again been considering the local priorities that will be driving my agenda in the coming months.

Prior to a Trust Board meeting on 10th August, Crispin Blunt has today expressed his support for Daniel Elkeles and the Board of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust in their quest to maximise assets to improve hospital services for residents in its catchment area.

I am pleased to confirm that, on Thursday 28th June 2018, the Reigate and Banstead Conservative Association Executive Council unanimously re-selected me as the Reigate Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservative Party at the next General Election.

Despite repeated personal approaches to The Secretary of State for Transport, Govia Thameslink Railway and Network Rail, Crispin Blunt has expressed ‘acute exasperation’ at the ongoing failure to provide an acceptable rail service to passengers travelling between London and Redhill despite it bei

Ever since my period as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at State at the Ministry of Justice, I have taken a keen interest in sentencing policy and criminal justice. I believe that, fundamental to our system, there must be a greater emphasis on the rehabilitation of offenders to reduce re-offending and the repeated cycle of condemning vulnerable petty offenders to harden into serial criminals in our overcrowded prisons.

In view of the serious hardships being imposed on the local rail travelling public as a result of the bodged implementation of GTRs new timetable, many constituents have, understandably, contacted me to ask what I have been doing about it. This blog is intended to provide information about meetings I have had this week with the Secretary of State (SoS) for Transport and senior personnel from Network Rail and Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) on this issue.

Tandridge District Council has today announced that South Godstone is the Council’s preferred option for a 'garden village'.