Last week was another busy one for me, with a lot going on both in Cornwall and in Parliament.
Ahead of the Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean
event, which runs from 25th March to 10th April, I was
pleased to lead my own beach clean with local residents and councillors on
Perranporth Beach last weekend. Even with the particularly blustery weather and
spectacular waves, the hard working beach cleaners managed to pick up four full
sacks of rubbish over the course of an hour of cleaning – rubbish which is now
removed from our marine ecosystem. There will be litter picks and beach cleans
taking place all around Cornwall for the Keep Britain Tidy Great British Spring
Clean and you can find out more via their website
https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/get-involved/support-our-campaigns/great-british-spring-clean
In Parliament I asked the Education Minister to re-affirm
the Government’s plans to build a new secondary school in Perranporth. This
will take students from the Perranporth, St Agnes, Cubert, Goonhavern,
Holywell, St Newlyn East, Newquay and Truro area.
In 2020, after months of discussion, it was confirmed that I
had secured a new secondary school for my constituency as part of the
Government’s Free School Programme. This much-needed secondary school is set to
be based near Perranporth and will make a huge difference to families on the
North Coast.
I am in regular contact with the Department for Education
and the local academy trust and we are so close to now securing a site for the
school. I was pleased to see the Minister re-affirm the Government’s commitment
to supporting and delivering a new secondary school in my Truro and Falmouth
constituency as soon as possible and will continue to work with all involved to
achieve this.
I also attended a meeting levelling up opportunities for
South West region. This was an important meeting with leading regional housing
associations, local government representatives and parliamentary colleagues to
discuss how we can level up the South West and tackle one of the biggest issues
for residents and local employees – the shortage of affordable housing. In
particular, we discussed the need to provide more affordable housing for key
workers to reduce staffing shortages in Cornwall. There is a huge amount of
work going on to address this issue, and I will continue to keep it at the top
of my agenda.
In Parliament I also had a meeting with the Health Secretary
and the Minister for Patient Safety and Primary Care, ahead of the publication
of the Women's Health Strategy later this Spring.
The need for this strategy is twofold:
First, to improve how the health and care system listens to
women, and to reset our approach to women’s health by placing their voices at
the centre of this work and second, to improve women’s health outcomes.
The Government’s consultation on this issue received nearly
100,000 responses from women across the country and over 400 written responses
from organisations and experts working in the health sector and beyond and I
look forward to seeing this information fed into the response and the strategy
emerging soon, where it can positively impact on peoples lives.
As ever, if you need my assistance with anything then my
team and I are here to help. Please get in touch with me by email at
Cherilyn.mackrory.mp@parliament.uk , or by telephone on 01872 229698. My
regular constituency advice surgeries are held in a covid-safe environment at
my office, so please do get in touch should you wish to meet me about any
matters that I can be of assistance with.
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