Promoting businesses and protecting jobs

We are home to many innovative businesses in high-growth sectors such as technology, telecoms and life sciences. We are ideally placed for the raft of investment and opportunities which the Government has announced for science, technology and defence. I will:

  • Hold regular meetings with Ministers and local businesses to ensure their priorities influence Government policy, especially in the new Science, Innovation and Technology Department;
  • Increase business investment, working in conjunction with local business leaders and central Government to maximise opportunities in key growth areas;
  • Hold annual jobs fairs to boost employment and apprenticeships;
  • Champion job opportunities for women. Whilst chair of the Women & Work Parliamentary Group, I consistently lobbied Government for a Women’s Employment Taskforce and strategy to support women’s employment in the recovery, particularly in areas where they have been historically underrepresented, such as science and technology.

I have also successfully campaigned for a new Code of Practice to impose financial penalties if employers seek to exploit workers through the use of ‘fire and rehire’ tactics and I have consistently campaigned for the protection and enhancement of workers' rights.

News

Laura visits Vicars Game

On Friday Laura visited Vicars Game, a butchers and game dealer in Ashampstead specialising in quality British meat.

Newbury Weekly News: The Return of the Newbury Show

If you are a West Berkshire local, there is nothing that heralds the end of summer quite like the Newbury Show (or to give it its proper title “The Royal County of Berkshire Show”): a near perfect blend of prize pigs and helter-skelters, craft tents and pints of ale, shire horse parades and falco

Laura's Jobs Fair: Thursday 28 September

On Thursday 28th September, Laura will be hosting her Jobs Fair with Newbury JobCentre Plus at Northcroft Leisure Centre from 10am to 1pm. Supporters of the event are the leisure centre's operator Everyone Active and the Newbury Weekly News.

Laura's hosting a Jobs Fair!

Supporting people across West Berkshire and making sure our communities have access to, and can benefit from, excellent employment opportunities has been one of Laura's key priorities since she was elected in 2019. 

Laura celebrates Ticketer, an innovating West Berkshire business

Laura visited Ticketer in Hungerford last week, which she said was "a real pleasure." Ticketer use technology to provide improved ticketing options on public transport and they recently won an award at the Newbury Weekly News Business Awards for Best Business Innovation.