Basingstoke’s MP, Maria Miller, visited Kids’ Basingstoke Nursey to meet nursery staff, parents and children, and to discuss the Government’s new funding for free childcare for children under 4 which could create 700 extra childcare places in Basingstoke.
Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics confirm that Basingstoke’s employment rate remains higher than across the South East as a whole in the year ending June 2023 and what’s more employment rates have increased compared with the previous year.
Lavazza is one of the biggest coffee companies in the world and their UK business to business home is Basingstoke. A family run business with a 3 billion Euro turnover, Lavazza in Basingstoke markets and sells coffee vending machines for the workplaces and offices.
Donna Jones, the Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC), for Hampshire and the IOW joined local MP Maria Miller, Basingstoke retailers and local business to discuss how to more effectively tackle crime against business, particularly shoplifting.
The Developer of Crown Heights, Barratt Development Ltd, has recently confirmed that they have switched contractors and that as a result, there will be delays to the start of remediation works.
MP meets Volunteers at Basingstoke Foodbank event in Chineham Tesco
“Basingstoke Foodbank held a Big Collection event on the first weekend of December and it was a pleasure to meet the volunteers, Jane Stubbs the new Chineham Tesco Community Champion and store manager Rosalie Chammas .
It has recently been announced that the ownership of Operose Health, who manage the administrative services at Camrose, Gillies and Hackwood (CGH), has been transferred to HCRG Care Group, one of the UK’s largest community health and care service providers.
Local MP Maria Miller dropped into Basingstoke engineering business LG Motion in Telford Road to see their work in robotics. Maria opened the businesses' original factory in Bessemer Park in 2005.