Cancer nurse, and Member of Parliament for Lewes, Maria Caulfield, has questioned a decision reached by the Department of Health not to fund second stem cell transplants for adults and children with blood cancers.

The Member of Parliament for Lewes, Maria Caulfield, this evening presented a petition, signed by hundreds of her constituents, to the Government, requesting an end to pension inequality being faced by thousands of women in the UK.

Maria Caulfield, Member of Parliament for Lewes, has welcomed today’s record-breaking figures showing that there are more people in work than ever before, with 4,512,000 people in work across the South East.  Since 2010, there are over 2.7 million more people across the United Kingdom in work, me

Since being elected Maria has made seeking improvements to the local rail services a priority. Below are just a selection of some of the actions she has taken.Maria has met with the rail minister to make the case for BML2:http://www.mariacaulfield.co.uk/news/lewes-mp-makes-case-bml2-rail-mini… spoke in a parliamentary debate on the poor performance of Southern Rail to raise the concerns of constituents and call for rapid improvements:

Maria has been standing alongside local residents opposing the plans for thousands of solar panels on agricultural land in Chailey.The MP met with villagers at the proposed site and offered her support to their campaign against the solar farm.Maria formally raised her objections to the plans with Lewes District Council on a number of grounds, as well as contacting Ministers to draw their attention to this case.Maria reiterated that whilst she is not opposed to renewable energy at all, but it has to be at appropriate sites.

I am backing local residents in their campaign to protect Wivelsfield from inappropriate development.I recently met with concerned residents to discuss the proposals affecting the village and I will be continuing to work closely alongside them on this matter going forward and will put more details up here in due course.