Almost 6,000 are estimated to be living with a learning disability in South West Devon, with 825 living in long-term care.I recently met with Mencap, a charity which supports people living with a learning disability, to discuss how we can break down barriers in areas such as healthcare, social care,
Rebecca Smith MP, Member of Parliament for South West Devon, has grilled a Defence Minister in Parliament on the Labour Government’s plans to sell Devonport-based HMS Bulwark and Albion to a foreign navy.
On Monday, 6th February, Rebecca Smith MP, Member of Parliament for South West Devon, took aim at the Labour Government’s inaction on benefits fraud as she delivered her first speech at the House of Commons despatch box.Speaking as a new Shadow DWP Junior Minister, Rebecca drove home concerns about
Plymstock Banking Hub The planned closure of Lloyd's Plymstock branch, the last bank on the Broadway, comes after the closure of its Post Office in September 2021 and had dealt a huge blow to the community.
Call for new 'banking hub' in Plymstock Today I raised the closure of Plymstock's Post Office with a Department for Business and Trade Minister, asking what he is doing to ensure that sustainable, joint Post Offices and banking services can replace closing branches.The closure of Lloyds' Plymstock b
Today marks 80 years since the liberation of the infamous former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, revealing one of the darkest stains in European history.On this Holocaust Memorial Day, I remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered in the Holocaust.
The Home Secretary's half-baked local enquiries into grooming gangs do not meet the scale of the national scandal. Equally, labelling people with genuine concerns about these abhorrent crimes as "far-right" is a sloppy attempt to shut down the debate.
