Campaigns

BBC 'Make A Difference' Awards

Local BBC Radio across England wants to award great neighbours, key workers, volunteers and more in Make A Difference Awards Community heroes who make a...

Lewes MP queries decision on cancer drug funding

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...

Lewes MP presents pension petition to Parliament

The Member of Parliament for Lewes, Maria Caulfield, this evening presented a petition, signed by hundreds of her constituents, to the Government, requesting an...

Record breaking employment figures welcomed by MP

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...

Improved Rail Services

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.

Keep Wivelsfield Green

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.