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Caroline Seeks Nominations for NHS Awards

Dame Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport, is seeking nominations for the 2024 NHS Parliamentary Awards 2024, after the deadline for submissions was extended a week. The NHS Parliamentary Awards offer a chance to celebrate NHS staff, carers and volunteers for all the hard work they d

“Heritage Assets are Rotting Under Our Noses,” says Gosport MP

Dame Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport, has raised the issue of heritage assets falling prey to the Ministry of Defence’s ‘managed decline’ policy with Culture Ministers on World Heritage Day.  Speaking in the House of Commons at Culture, Media, and Sport Oral Questions, Caro

Caroline Welcomes Disability Minister to Gosport

Dame Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport, recently hosted the Minister for Disabled people, Mims Davis MP, in her constituency. The purpose of the Ministerial visit was to engage with the work being done by the Gosport Job Centre Plus, which is one of only eleven Health Model Office

Caroline Celebrates New Rights for Carers

Dame Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport, has welcomed the introduction of new caring rights. The Carer’s Leave Act 2023, which comes into force today [Saturday 6 April], introduces up to a week of unpaid leave for anyone with caring duty towards a dependent with a long term care ne

NHS Dentistry - What's Going On?

The difficulty accessing an NHS dentist locally is something that has increasingly appeared in my MP mailbag.  Like many things, NHS dentistry is still recovering from the long-term impacts of Covid-19.  But the issues actually began back in 2006, when the then Labour Government carried o

Caroline Welcomes Increased SEND Provision

Dame Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport, has welcomed the news that Hampshire County Council is set to benefit from £26,364,528 of funding for children with special educational needs. The Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan, today announced that the Conservative Govern

“Plan a Visit!”, Gosport MP says on English Tourism Week

Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport, has marked English Tourism Week 2024 with a visit to Priddy’s Hard in Gosport. Caroline visited the brand new Coastal Forces Gallery at the Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower, which pays tribute to the extraordinary operations of the coastal for

Caroline To Meet Telecoms Minister Over Telegraph Pole Complaints

Dame Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport, will meet with Julia Lopez, Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure, on Monday following concerns from Gosport residents that they have not been consulted over telegraph pole sitings. Caroline first received complaints from residents th

Caroline Welcomes Football Governance Bill

Dame Caroline Dinenage, Member of Parliament for Gosport, has welcomed legislation that will empower the voices of football fans. Introduced to Parliament today [Tuesday 19 March], the Football Governance Bill will establish in law an Independent Football Regulator which will be given comprehensive

Caroline Welcomes Law to Protect Puppies

Plans for a new law to prevent puppy smugglers from importing poorly and ill dogs were backed in Parliament on Friday 15 March. Under the Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill, people selling pets would be banned from importing puppies under six months old, with heavily pregnant do