James Heappey hosts RPA Roundtable for farmers in Wells Tuesday, 7 May, 2024 Wells MP James Heappey hosted a roundtable in the city with the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), to allow farmers to find out more about support available, and future policy plans in relation to the farming industry. More than 20 farmers attended the event, with presentations from the RPA, the Forestry Commission, Natural England and further representatives from the Department of Environment, Food and... Local News
James Heappey Weekly Column 21st August 2019 In my last column I wrote about the newly crafted industrial strategy for our region and my hopes for how it might catalyse some change in our county's economy... Local News
James Heappey Weekly Column 7th August 2019 Last week I had an excellent meeting with the Chief Executive of our Local Enterprise Partnership to discuss our vision for developing the economy in Devon and... Local News
James Heappey appointed Boris Johnson PPS 5th August 2019 Boris Johnson has asked James to be his Parliamentary Private Secretary. The PM will have two PPSes - the other is Alex Burghart (Brentwood and Ongar (and... Westminster News
James Heappey Weekly Column 31st July 2019 There are plenty of road closures at the moment as our roads are dug up for the arrival of fibre broadband. This has been a long time coming and represents a... Local News
James Heappey Weekly Column 24th July 2019 There was a stark contrast between the victory speeches of the new leaders of the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats. Jo Swinson accepted her new role... Local News
James Heappey Weekly Column 17th July 2019 This is the last column I'll write whilst Theresa May is our Prime Minister. By the time this paper is published next week, the Queen will have called for the... Local News
James Heappey MP Weekly Column 10th July 2019 The proposal to move Wells's Post Office is attracting lots of attention and emotion. Three years ago we were able to 'save' the Post Office in its current... Local News
James Heappey Weekly Column 3rd July 2019 On the morning before Meaningful Vote Three I felt genuine hope that we might be about to make significant progress on our Brexit journey. Enough Labour MPs... Local News
James Heappey Weekly Newsletter 26th June 2019 This week Parliament has legislated for a new decarbonisation target of 'Net Zero' by 2050. This means that by then, the UK will have decarbonised compltetely... Local News
