As MP for the Congleton Constituency, Fiona is committed to promoting community life, local businesses and voluntary activity and works closely with Cheshire East Council and Town Councils in Alsager, Congleton, Middlewich and Sandbach as well as many Parish Councils in support of the strong local communities in her Constituency.
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| Fiona Bruce MP meets Minister Ed Vaisey MP to discuss Broadband |
She has vigorously led campaigns in and outside Parliament for more funding for improved High Speed Broadband facilities for her Constituency, a particular need for many businesses in the area. Fiona champions Small Businesses – for example funding for apprenticeships and for a reduction in regulation, particularly from the EU.
Fiona has also fought for Rural Growth Funding for her Constituency – millions of pounds of which have now been advanced by Central Government to transport links in the Constituency.
Fiona has worked with a group of MPs to secure better online protection for children from inappropriate internet material and unnecessarily explicit sex education.
She has been a lead member in a Parliamentary Inquiry into improved Financial Education in Schools, the report of which, published December 2011, can be found at http://www.pfeg.org/curriculum_and_policy/appg_on_financial_education_for_young_people/appg_strands/appg_inquiry_report.html
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| Fiona and other MPs meet the Prime Minister to discuss Financial Education |
Fiona is a member of the All Party Group for better protection for the victims of Human Trafficking.
Fiona has a long term relationship with and commitment to developing a school in Tanzania and in inspiring young people to partner support projects in that region of Africa. Fiona has also led teams of business advisors to Rwanda to help build the capacity of business in Rwanda to trade and so create jobs and promote economic growth and development. She has worked closely in connection with the Rwandan Ministry of Trade and Commerce.
Fiona is a member of the Parliamentary Group for North Korea and seeks to highlight the plight and suffering of the many millions of people there. She was praised for her compassion in a debate, led by her, on this subject. Christian Solidarity Worldwide's Cry Freedom campaign features the debate at http://www.csw.org.uk/cryfreedom and details the aims of CSW regarding North Korea.
She bought an amendment to the Finance Bill pressing for the introduction of a married person’s tax allowance – something the government is now committed to bringing in during this Parliament.
Fiona has clearly voiced her opposition to the HS2 rail proposals which she has described as being ‘an inordinately expensive potential burden on my constituents without any justifiable business case in the current economic climate and voted (against the party whip) in favour of a referendum on Britain’s relationship with the European Union.
Locally, she has campaigned vigorously against the proposed incinerator in Middlewich which she considers to be a totally unreasonable, unfair and unnecessary imposition on the strong local community there. She has campaigned successfully against the imposition of car parking charges in Market Towns across her Constituency leading one constituent to write in the local press of how Fiona always stood by what was right for her constituents.
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| Campaigning against the Middlewich Incinerator |
