Steve Double MP statement on Brexit

Today is the day we should have left the EU.

I am very disappointed we have not.

I understand my own disappointment will be shared by many constituents who voted to leave, both here in Cornwall and throughout the UK.

Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay has welcomed the news that the Government is providing more than £600,000 of funding from the Rough Sleeping Initiative fund to Cornwall.

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Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay has today welcomed the news that projects in the constituency have received over half a million pounds from the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay, has welcomed confirmation by Cornwall Council that they will be allocating nearly £100,000 of government funding to enable community groups to have access to more equipment for litter picks and beach cleans.

Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay has today confirmed the continued commitment of Government to support Cornwall Airport Newquay to be the first horizontal launch site for satellites, as well as a promise from the Minister to visit Newquay next month, following a quest

Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay will be joining volunteers to clean up in St Austell as part of Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean.

“My decision on last night’s vote was one I arrived at following much agonising and consideration. It was one of the hardest choices I have had to make as an MP.”

Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay has this evening questioned Secretary of State for Homes, Communities and Local Government James Brokenshire MP on the newly announced Stronger Towns Fund.

Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay has welcomed today’s announcement by Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling MP that the Government is releasing £80m funds to upgrade resilience of the Dawlish line.

Steve Double, Member of Parliament for St Austell and Newquay, has called upon the Government to reclassify the launching of balloons as littering.