Despite the Parliamentary recess, Alec and the Conservative Government are working hard this summer to deliver for residents in Elmet & Rothwell.
- Immigration Minister Brandon Lewis has announced plans to replace landing cards for Non-European travellers, scrapping the outdated paper-based system, which costs the public around £3.6 million each year. This is part of a modernisation of border technology to ensure Border Force staff stop dealing with outdated paperwork and can continue to focus on security and protecting the public.
- Greg Clark, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, has announced an independent review into the cost of energy, led by Professor Dieter Helm CBE, which will recommend ways to keep energy prices as low as possible, as pledged in the Conservative manifesto.
- Digital Minister Matthew Hancock is working on a new Data Protection Bill to update and strengthen data protection laws, making it easier for people to have social media posts from their childhood removed.
- Philip Dunne, Minister of State for Health, has begun the biggest ever expansion to the NHS medical workforce in England, with plans to train an extra 1,500 doctors a year by 2020 and an additional 10,000 additional training places for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.
- And Environment Secretary Michael Gove has proposed that CCTV will be made mandatory in all slaughterhouses, to further strengthen animal welfare standards in England.