CAROLINE
DINENAGE
As a Health minister for the Conservative
Party, Caroline has shown that she is looking for climate change friendly ways of improving roads from
existing highways such that air quality is improved and vehicles of the
future may be serviced. If only our own MP, Nus
Ghani was doing the same, perhaps with the backing of Ann
Newton, Johanna
Howell and Susan
Stedman. Wealden seems to have forgotten that car ownership per
household in the South-East is higher than other areas of the country.
Biography
Caroline Dinenage was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care on 9 January 2018. Caroline was
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from June 2017 to January 2018.
She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Women, Equalities and Early Years at the Department for
Education from July 2016 to June 2017.
She was elected Conservative MP for Gosport, Stubbington, Lee-on-the-Solent and Hill Head in 2010.
Education
Caroline studied politics and English at Swansea University.
Political career
Between 1998 and 2003 Caroline served on the City of Winchester local council. She was appointed the Small Business Ambassador for the South by the
Prime Minister in June 2013, and between 2012 and 2015 sat on the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee.
From April 2014 to May 2015 Caroline served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP. From May 2015 to July 2016 she served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Women, Equalities and Family Justice at the Ministry of Justice and
DfE.
Career outside politics
Caroline has more than 20 years of experience as a small business owner, having established her own manufacturing company before university.
FLEET NEWS 22 JANUARY 2018 - GOSPORT MP SUPPORTS EV INFRASTRUCTURE
Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage has said that air quality will improve with an increased EV infrastructure.
Dinenage made the comments during a visit to a Hampshire-based petrol station, which had installed an InstaVolt EV charge point.
The MP, recently named Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care, echoes sentiments raised by Ministers
Jesse Norman and Claire
Perry, who recently wrote to UK councils urging them to apply for the Department for Transport’s Chargepoint Scheme, following reports that funding for thousands of electric car charge points has remained unused by councils.
Dinenage visited the Lee-on-the-Solent Service Station to ascertain how private companies are working together to speed up installations.
“We’re in a real chicken and egg situation when it comes to cleaning up the UK’s toxic
air problem,” she said.
“We know that swapping older, more polluting cars for electric vehicles will help to reduce toxic air. But we can’t expect motorists to buy
electric cars unless there’s the infrastructure there to charge them.”
InstaVolt has has installed two rapid chargers at Lee-on-the-Solent Service Station, and claims that it will be installing thousands of charge-points across the UK at places like gyms and council car parks.
InstaVolt’s chief executive Tim Payne said: “Sales of electric vehicles are on the rise, with record market share for plug-in cars in December.
“Caroline is absolutely right when she says we need to create a reliable charging infrastructure to encourage more people to go electric and, ultimately, help improve air quality in the UK.
"That’s why companies like ours are working day and night to install thousands of chargers all over the country.”
Dinenage added: “It’s great to see two local companies coming together to make our roads an even easier place to drive an electric vehicle.”
Pictured: (L) Caroline Dinenage MP and Tim Payne, CEO of Instavolt.
CONTACT
CAROLINE
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Tel: 020 7219 7078; 020 7219 0198
Fax: 020 7219 6874
Email: caroline.dinenage.mp@parliament.uk
Constituency
167 Stoke Road, Gosport, PO12 1SE
Tel: 023 9252 2121
Fax: 023 9252 0900
CONSERVATIVE
PLEDGE - According to her website Caroline says: "I have a track record of securing investment, safeguarding jobs, and backing businesses in the Gosport area. In 2010 I pushed for the Daedalus site to become one of the Government’s Enterprise Zones. Over £50 million has now been invested and the site houses the CEMAST centre of excellence for engineering skills training and an Innovation Centre for small businesses.
I helped to secure over £25m of Government funding to build a new peninsula access road (the Stubbington Bypass) as well as funds for other local highway improvement projects including Newgate Lane North & South, St Margaret’s roundabout and Peel Common
roundabout. By supporting local apprenticeships and skills training, the Gosport constituency now has the highest number of apprentices in the South-East.
I will continue to focus on four key issues:
1) Improving transport links
2) Maximising the potential of the Daedalus Enterprise Zone
3) Backing small businesses and attracting investment into the Gosport peninsula
4) Supporting education and training
As a truly local candidate who has lived in South Hampshire all my life, if re-elected I will continue to stand up on the issues that matter most to my constituents."
CONSERVATIVE
CLIMATE - Michael Gove has been summoned to Brussels because of his
party's failure to meet air pollution targets despite warnings about
which the Prime
Minister was aware of.
UK
POLITICS
The
United Kingdom has many political parties, some of which are
represented in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Below are links to the websites of the political parties that were
represented in the House of Commons after the 2015 General Election:
CONSERVATIVE
PARTY
CO-OPERATIVE
PARTY
DEMOCRAT
UNIONIST PARTY
GREEN
PARTY
LABOUR
PARTY
LIBERAL
DEMOCRATS
PLAID
CYMRU
SCOTTISH
NATIONAL PARTY
SINN
FEIN
SOCIAL
DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY
UK
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
ULSTER
UNIONIST PARTY
Conservative
Party
Co-operative
Party
Democratic
Unionist Party
Green
Party
Labour
Party
Liberal
Democrats
Plaid
Cymru
Scottish
National Party
Sinn
Féin
Social
Democratic and Labour Party
UK
Independence Party
Ulster
Unionist Party
We
are concerned with how the make up of the above parties and (reasonably)
popular policies may affect the Wealden district, because we are all
brothers on two islands in the Atlantic
Ocean and what we do or fail to do is likely to rebound on ourselves
and our fellow man in other nations around the world. How we act today
influences policies in other countries in our global community. It is
not just about us and our patch.
DISTRICT
& BOROUGH COUNCILS
East
Sussex has five District and Borough Councils, each with a border on
the coast. From west to east they are:
Eastbourne
Borough Council
Hastings
Borough Council
Lewes
District Council
Rother
District Council
Wealden
District Council
There
is also East
Sussex County Council as the provider of services to the 5 East
Sussex districts.
As
near neighbours and with councils now sharing facilities and working
together, these area of Sussex are included in our remit and an area
where climate
change and affordable
housing are issues that need urgent attention. Where the coastline
is a feature in every Council, Blue
Growth is a food
security issue, especially where this side of of our local economy
is under-exploited.
