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Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, will today be visiting Business Revolution Enterprise Ltd's new work hub. The aim of the work hub is to provide a flexible workspace in a new generation of working where jobs often involve working from home and 'hot-desking'. Business Revolution also offers users access [...]

From today – 1 April – the NHS in Norfolk will enjoy an extra £54 million, to support key Government priorities such as the Cancer Drugs Fund, investment in talking therapies for those with mental health conditions, 4,200 extra health visitors, and support for carers' breaks. Spending on healthcare in our [...]

Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, today reminds constituents who wish to make a posthumous claim for relatives who suffered from contaminated blood, to do so before 31st March, the deadline for the Skipton Fund. The Skipton Fund is the body that processes claims for those infected with hepatitis [...]

Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, will be running the latest seminar in the series of her 'Next Generation' business seminars. Begun last year in collaboration with City College and Howes Percival LLP, these meetings bring together Norwich students, entrepreneurs and established local firms to discuss the skills and business [...]

Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, today commended the Government's Budget with its plan to reform the economy to support jobs and growth, and to take steps to help families with the cost of living – including an immediate cut in fuel duty. Furthermore the Budget confirmed as part [...]

Chloe Smith and Simon Wright, Norwich North and South MPs, today call on the Chancellor to consider creating enterprise zones in Norwich in his Budget tomorrow. They write jointly to the Treasury with the backing of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership; Norfolk Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Norfolk Institute of [...]

Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, today commented on fuel prices in advance of the Budget: "It's clear from many individuals, families and businesses locally that fuel prices are one thing hitting very hard at the moment. I strongly appreciate how much fuel prices affect people in and around Norwich, both [...]

Chloe Smith will tomorrow be joining staff and pupils of Sprowston Junior School to take part in Aspirations Week and Red Nose Day fun. Sprowston Junior School have invited Chloe Smith MP to the finale of their 'Aspirations Week' programme to talk to the pupils about why she wanted to become [...]

YOUNG PEOPLE ACROSS THE UK ARE CHALLENGED TO START A BUSINESS WITH A TENNER IN LANDMARK SCHEME BACKED BY DRAGONS' DEN STAR Today Chloe Smith MP has announced her support for a scheme that sees school kids encouraged to start a business with just £10 each, in the biggest ever Tenner [...]

Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, will tomorrow (Friday 11th March) meet the local branch of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) to discuss small business issues. Chloe holds a round-table with the FSB every six months. The last meeting followed the Spending Review, and tomorrow's anticipates the next [...]

Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, today welcomed simple but significant reforms which help young people get work experience. Today the Commons passed measures to allow people who are on Jobseeker's Allowance to gain work experience without losing their benefit. This is on the same day as the principal debate on [...]

Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, will on Friday 11th March be visiting the Nationwide Building Society as part of her ongoing campaign to improve financial services and advice in Norwich. Chloe has been working locally with the Citizens Advice Bureau and other local organisations in the private, public and voluntary [...]

Norwich MPs call for evidence on Connaught directors   The MPs for Norwich North and South today called for evidence of misconduct by the directors of Connaught PLc, to bolster the Insolvency Service's official investigation. Local MPs Chloe Smith and Simon Wright have called consistently for a local investigation into what went wrong [...]

Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, will tomorrow help launch the new 'Bridge' service at The Matthew Project in Pottergate. The Bridge is a service run by the Matthew Project with new initiatives including working in partnership between the project and the NHS Trust Alcohol and Drugs Service, as [...]

Digital UK and the Switchover Help Scheme hosted a briefing in the House of Commons last week to discuss the digital television switchover of the Anglia TV region. The switchover will see analogue TV channels turned off and Freeview services boosted to reach virtually all homes. From that point onwards analogue [...]

Chloe Smith Member of Parliament for Norwich North has given her support to the 'Cots for Tots' Appeal. The 'Cots for Tots' Appeal is aiming to raise £500,000 to fund building work and four new specialist cots for the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The unit, [...]

Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, is calling for coordinated action to improve post-event care for people who have heart attacks. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the UK's biggest killer - around one in five men and one in seven women die from the disease. CHD causes around 94,000 deaths in [...]

Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, today encouraged local people to tell the County Council what they think of plans to change street lighting. Residents in parts of northern Norwich have received letters recently giving notice of Norfolk County Council's plans to shift to part night lighting in certain [...]

Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, today encouraged local people to tell the City Council what they think of sites throughout the city that could be used for housing and other development. The City Council has released its site allocations plan and its development management policies plan, for [...]

Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, today encouraged local people to tell bus companies what they think of local bus services, as one local firm raises fare prices, concessionary prices change and the County Council reviews what it can afford to subsidise. Chloe conducted a survey into local [...]