Steve Barclay
Member of Parliament for North East Cambridgeshire
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A strong local champion with a national voice
Steve Barclay has been the MP for North East Cambridgeshire since 2010, working as a strong voice both locally and nationally. This has helped change Fenland from being the Forgotten Fens of the past and delivered over £100 million in recent investment.
His key priorities are continuing to make it easier to access NHS services locally, upgrading infrastructure, delivering better local schools and skills, providing improved sports and arts facilities, protecting our rural landscape and backing local farmers.
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DEI roles every week under Labour
My new analysis has revealed that EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) roles paying up to £91,336 have been advertised on average every week since Labour came to power. Taking into account the generous NHS pension scheme, these are estimated to cost over £2.2 million a year. 35 recent roles have been advertised on the NHS’s jobs website.
As the former Health Secretary, having previously taken action to try and cut wasteful DE&I spending when in office. I ensured that the Department for Health and Social Care had no standalone diversity roles and instructed the department’s arms-length bodies as well as local NHS organisations to cease recruitment to DE&I roles.
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Secure borders are essential to keep our country safe
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”, so says the oft-used, if likely misattributed, quotation. Yet this encapsulates what we’ve been doing in respect of the laws that have stopped tough action on small boat arrivals and deporting foreign criminals. We now need to be bold and admit that it’s time the UK left the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Wisbech Incinerator
I am strongly opposed to the Wisbech incinerator and remain committed to campaigning against this threat.
I am asking all councillors to sign a pledge to the people of Fenland that they will not vote for or support in any way the use of the Wisbech Incinerator.
If Cambridgeshire County Council, Fenland District Council and other local authorities refuse to send waste to the Wisbech incinerator. This will undermine the business case for investment funding for construction of the incinerator.
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Family Farm Tax
Labour are choosing to put their party interest above the country, forcing family farms to be sold off to pay inheritance tax bills which will not affordable without land sales.
The beneficiaries of Labour's policy will be private equity firms, and other companies who will buy the land for solar, carbon offsets and other environmental schemes. As s a result we will lose generations of farm knowledge, reduce the amount of land used for farm production, and in particular for tenant farmers who cannot sell land as they don't own the land, risk losing entire farm businesses.
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