News - Justin Tomlinson

Nearly £635k Extra Funding For Domestic Abuse And Sexual Violence Victims In Wiltshire Announced

Jul 13, 2022

Nearly £635,000 worth of funding will be used to support victims of domestic abuse in Wiltshire over the next three years after a successful bid by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC). The latest announcement by the Ministry of Justice, at the beginning of the month, means that funding for the services will be boosted by £211,000 a year for the next three years - and this in addition to the money the OPCC already provides and awards to services. A detailed breakdown of how the...

CapX Article: Kemi Badenoch Is An Unapologetic Conservative Who'll Always Be Straight With Voters

Jul 11, 2022

Last week will live long in the memory for many. Never before have we seen such scenes in Westminster. For those of us in the fray it feels like a dramatic end of an era. But for those outside of the bubble, beyond the boundaries of SW1 and away from the blow-by-blow accounts of our rolling media, the story will be viewed very differently. Political infighting sees Prime Minister toppled; meanwhile the cost of living crisis rages on, our tax burden remains at its highest in decades and is set to...

North Swindon MP Visits GWH to Welcome Site Expansion and Improvements

Jul 08, 2022

Justin Tomlinson MP spent Friday morning at Great Western Hospital to welcome the latest round of site expansions and meet with the CEO, Kevin McNamara. Justin was taken on a tour of the site to view the potential site expansion and the new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) alongside Kevin McNamara (CEO), Julian Auckland-Lewis (Project Manager), and Claire Thompson (Director of Partnership and Improvement). Following this, Justin joined the official UTC ribbon cutting ceremony alongside Cllrs Curtis...

Swindon Advertiser Column - A Week Is A Long Time In Politics

Jul 07, 2022

Deep breath! As fast as I have tried to type this, events continue to overtake! When I caught the train to Parliament on Monday, I was not expecting to see a change in PM, but ‘a week is a long time in politics!’. Very quickly it became clear colleagues were unhappy, the vote of confidence only a few weeks early which in theory granted the PM 12 months grace was deemed not sufficient. Whilst I was a supporter of the PM, his ultimate resignation became inevitable as he lost the trust of colleag...

Justin Launches National Reading Challenge

Jul 04, 2022

Local MP & former Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Libraries, Justin Tomlinson, has once again hosted the Parliamentary launch of The Reading Agency’s incredibly popular Summer Reading Challenge. Since 2016 Justin has launched the event in Parliament, which is a collaboration between The Reading Agency and local libraries. The challenge encourages children to read for fun throughout the summer holidays and aims to address the dip in reading attainment that can occur while chil...

North Swindon MP Visits Buzz Bingo

Jul 04, 2022

North Swindon MP, Justin Tomlinson visited Buzz Bingo in the Greenbridge Retail Park to celebrate the UK’s second annual National Bingo Day. Taking place on Monday 27th June and supported by the Bingo Association, National Bingo Day is the registered awareness day for bingo in the UK that takes place each year on the same day it is celebrated in the USA. Bingo club operators will be coming together to celebrate the love of the game and everything that makes it fun: people, players, friends, comm...

Swindon Advertiser Column - Summer Reading Challenge Will Encourage Children To Love Books

Jul 01, 2022

This week I was pleased to host an event in Parliament launching the Summer Reading Challenge – the UK’s biggest free reading for pleasure programme for children. This is the seventh time I’ve hosted the event in Parliament, and it was brilliant to see MPs enthusiastically supporting our event. Taking place annually, the challenge encourages children aged 4-11 to keep reading during the summer holidays. Children’s reading can dip during the long summer holidays if they don’t have regular access ...

Half A Million Benefit Claimants Get Jobs In Under 6 Months

Jun 30, 2022

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson has welcomed new that half a million people have been supported into work in less than 6 months thanks to “Way to Work”, a government drive to get jobseekers into vacancies. Launched in January, ministers set the target of supporting 500,000 jobseekers through the jobcentre and into employment by the end of June. This coincided with the need to fill a record number of job vacancies as the economy rebounded after the pandemic. Unemployment now stands at an almost...

Public Safety Boost As Major Justice Reforms Come Into Force

Jun 29, 2022

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act equips police with the powers and tools they need to combat crime while overhauling sentencing laws to protect the public and keep serious sexual and violent offenders behind bars for longer. These include making whole-life orders the starting point for pre-meditated child murder, introducing mandatory life sentences for those who unlawfully kill emergency workers in the line of duty, and ending the automatic early release of offenders deemed to be a ...

Justin Visits Rebranded Neuro Wellbeing Centre

Jun 28, 2022

Last Friday, Justin was delighted to visit the Neuro Wellbeing Centre in the Westmead Industrial Estate. Originally starting out as the Swindon Therapy Centre for Multiple Sclerosis, founded in 1981 as a self-help group, and then became a registered charity in 1983, it has steadily grown since. Recently rebranded, the Neuro Wellbeing Centre is an inclusive wellbeing Centre dedicated to helping people lead happy, healthy, independent lives. As a fully accessible centre, it is the only facility of...