Covid-19

I am very excited to hear news that the vaccine has reached the Chippenham constituency!! It is being administered in Chippenham at Rowden Surgery and Melksham at Spencer Sports Club.

If you are forming a Christmas Bubble, it’s vital that from today, you minimise contact with people from outside your household. Everyone must take personal responsibility to avoid passing the virus on to loved ones this Christmas.

Following the fantastic news that the MHRA approved the Pfizer/BioNTech, the UK’s vaccination programme has begun rolling out to protect the most vulnerable against Covid-19 and finally offer us real hope of overcoming this virus.

From today, the self-isolation period will be shortened from 14 to 10 days.

If you’re contacted by NHS Test & Trace, it’s vital that you isolate to protect your community, & our NHS.

This has been a difficult year – but it’s OK to not feel OK. Need to talk to someone? Every mind matters including yours.

As we make steps to protect public health, I have been clear we must also take action to secure jobs and incomes.

New Job Support Scheme to help businesses bring back their employees, directly supporting the wages of people in work and give businesses the option of keeping employees in a job on shorter hours rather than making them redundant.

The app will enable anyone with a smartphone to engage with every aspect of the NHS Test and Trace service, from ordering a test through to accessing the right guidance and advice.

New £2 billion Kickstart scheme will create thousands of new jobs for young people, including here in the Chippenham Constituency.

New statistics show that we in the Chippenham Constituency ate over 76,000 meals during Eat Out to Help Out! Nationally, diners across the UK helped to protect 2million jobs by taking part in the scheme, thousands of which were right here in Wiltshire!