Letter to the Editor
Lancashire Evening Post

"The Prime Minister’s announcement of an extra £20 billion a year cash injection for the NHS, will I’m sure be welcomed across Lancashire.

OUR LONG-TERM PLAN FOR THE NHS

We're increasing NHS funding by £394 million a week in real terms by 2023/24.

1. £20.5 billion a year, £394 million a week, extra in real terms by 2023/24.

2. A ten year plan for world-class healthcare with more doctors and nurses.

After nearly two years, there's still discussions about a new Super Hospital between Chorley and Preston near the Chorley/South Ribble border.

In our new survey, tell us what you think.

A multi-million pound investment in state-of-the-art facilities for children with special educational needs, helping to ensure that every child has the best start in life.

Schools to benefit from an extra £50 million to improve facilities and create more good school places for children with special educational needs. The Government also announced a further £680 million to create 40,000 new good school places.

Urgent plans to tackle poor performance on Northern rail services have been submitted today (23 May 2018) to Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Rail Minister Jo Johnson.

It was announced today that Chorley's employment rate in the year to December 2017 reached 84.9%, the highest on record since they began in December 2004.  And our neighbouring South Ribble constituency also broke records at 86.2%.