Constituency Visits: Boscombe Down and Devizes Chamber of Commerce

On Wednesday 15th, I had a fascinating discussion with Chief Inspector Howarth and Inspector Andy Noble who cover the southern half of my constituency including Marlborough and Pewsey. We talked about the potential impact of spending reductions on policing and also the desirability of getting more people involved in reducing anti-social behaviour across the constituency.

Following this I had an extremely interesting visit to Boscombe Down where I was able to see first-hand many aspects of its operations which, whilst it lies just outside of my constituency, still employs several hundred constituents.

I rounded off an exciting day with extremely well attended meeting at the Bear Hotel with members of the Devizes Chamber of Commerce to discuss the importance of small business in our market towns and what we need to do to continue to have business growing and thriving. The discussion also included the need to cut red tape, the need to get banks lending again, and the critical importance of affordable parking in our market towns.

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