The City accounts for 10% of our economy, and 11% of tax revenue. So it’s vital for all of us that we ensure the City has access to the wider EU market.

Since last year’s election I’ve continued to lobby the Government for significant rail improvements on the West Anglia Line. This means better rolling stock, investment in signalling and stations and doubling the track capacity into London. I am confident that we have a strong case to make.

Free movement of people brings real benefits to us in the UK. It’s good for travel and tourism and helps businesses close gaps in the skills they need. It also enables millions of Brits to travel, study and work across the EU. Indeed, over 1.2 million British citizens have taken up the opportunity to live abroad. 

The ability of people to travel freely around the EU is one of its key principles. Millions of us enjoy the benefits, from lower costs of flights on our European holidays, to an EU-wide deal with mobile phone companies, which has capped the cost of phone and text costs for all of us.

The Government is today announcing the winner of its new Condition Improvement Fund (CIF). Worth over £200m nationally the CIF has been awarded to nine schools in the Hertford & Stortford constituency. 

Mark Prisk MP today welcomed the Budget which included a series of measures to help small shops and businesses. Mark Prisk is a former Business Minister and has campaigned for help for small businesses and the self-employed.

Local MP Mark Prisk and the charity Anthony Nolan are searching for more local lifesavers in Hertford and Stortford to join the Anthony Nolan stem cell donor register and help in the fight against blood cancer.

Mark Prisk, MP for Hertford and Stortford, has today renewed his call for a fairer deal for his commuters, in a debate he secured in the House of Commons. He said that commuters paid a lot for a service which they often felt was “unreliable, unpleasant and unacceptable”.

Mark Prisk, MP for Hertford & Stortford, has issued an open letter to his constituents setting out why he believes Britain’s best interests lie within a reformed EU. 

Mark Prisk MP sets out his views on UK involvement in Syria following the debate and House of Commons vote on Wednesday 2nd December 2015.