Natalie met with owners of the Oriental Mini-Mart in Dover’s Market Square to celebrate the contribution of this shop to the area. The Oriental Mini-Mart, run by Neil and Lorna Wiggins, provides an exciting range of Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and other oriental groceries. As well as catering for local...
Ending the small boats crisis will save lives
Last weekend’s tragic drowning of six migrants close to France was another sad reminder of the danger and human cost of the small boats crossings. As we can all see, these criminal gangs don’t care about the safety of people using the small boats. They pack people into the...
Natalie praises social care workforce amid £9 million Government funding boost
Across Dover, Deal and the villages, adult social care workers are doing a great job of providing a vital and important service in caring for older and vulnerable people. It can be a great vocation and there are job vacancies in social care for people who might wish to consider...
Delivering Better Healthcare
Delivering better healthcare is one of my key priorities as the Member of Parliament for Dover and Deal. Talking to residents in my regular MP surgeries and at community meetings, I know how important it is that high quality healthcare can be accessed locally.This is why I have been working...
Helping people in need with their individual cases and concerns
One of the most rewarding parts of being an MP is being able to help people with their personal and important cases and concerns. The job of an MP is to serve the community, be a vital link between constituents and the Government and to be someone who people can...
Natalie highlights detailed preparations as key to managing peak holiday traffic
Dover MP, Natalie Elphicke, has highlighted the detailed planning that went into the peak holiday getaway weekends as key to preventing lengthy gridlock on Kent roads. Natalie said that weeks of preparations had gone into the Summer planning, with the MP holding meetings with Ministers, the Kent Resilience Forum and...
The Summer traffic preparations paid off
Last weekend’s Summer getaway peak travel period went much better than many of us had feared. After all the problems at Easter, another major traffic disaster had confidently been predicted by the commentators. The Sun newspaper front page headlined “Hell Hol!” with a picture of traffic in gridlock on the...
Welcoming new national maternity safety body
Natalie Elphicke MP has welcomed the Government’s response to the Kirkup Inquiry into avoidable baby deaths at East Kent Hospitals. In Parliament, the MP thanked the families involved in the inquiry for their campaign to see maternity services improved in East Kent and across the UK. Recently, the Health Minister,...
Gridlock avoided during Port of Dover’s big Summer Getaway
Last weekend, Friday 21 July to Sunday 23 July, saw the biggest test of the Kent and Dover roads system since before the pandemic. Some 115,000 passengers, over 27,000 cars, more than 440 coaches and some 7,300 lorries travelled through the Port, with numbers inbound into the UK boosting the...
Calling on Transport Ministers and Kent Police to act swiftly to keep Dover clear during the Summer getaway peak period.
Following pressure from the Dover and Deal MP Natalie Elphicke, Transport Ministers, Kent County Council, the Port of Dover, Kent Police and the Kent Resilience Forum have all been making detailed preparations to avoid gridlock at the port and in the town during the Summer Getaway period. The MP says she...