Backing Local Business

Backing Local Business

Local businesses keep Beverley and Holderness working. They provide jobs, train young people, support charities and keep our high streets alive.

When local businesses struggle, the whole community feels it. Prices rise, jobs disappear and town centres decline.

That is why backing local business is one of Graham’s priorities. Keeping costs down for employers helps keep prices down for families and protects local jobs.

Across Beverley and Holderness, Graham regularly meets local employers to hear directly about the pressures they face. From hospitality and farming to small shops and family firms, businesses are dealing with rising costs, business rates pressure and growing regulation.

Graham believes government should back the people who create jobs and keep communities thriving.

That means:

• Listening to local employers and taking their concerns to Westminster
• Pushing for fairer taxes and lower costs for small businesses
• Championing local firms that provide jobs and training
• Supporting hospitality, retail and rural businesses that are vital to the local economy

Local businesses are not just employers. They are part of the fabric of our towns and villages.

Backing them helps keep prices down, protects jobs and strengthens our communities.

Backing businesses to keep prices down and jobs local.

If you run a business in Beverley and Holderness, Graham wants to hear from you about the challenges you face and what government should do to support local employers.

News

Graham launches business survey ahead of Chancellor’s Budget

Graham is calling on local businesses to share their views ahead of the Chancellor’s second Budget next Wednesday, a moment that will affect business, entrepreneurs and working people across the country. Over the past year, Graham has heard from dozens of business owners who say recent decision

Graham backs scrapping High Street Business Rates to Get Britain Working Again

Local MP Graham Stuart has welcomed a bold new Conservative pledge to scrap business rates for shops, pubs and cafés, a move he says will breathe life back into East Yorkshire’s high streets and help get Britain working again. The plan will give 250,000 small businesses across the country a com

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Graham and Hedon United in Fight for Banking Hub 

Following Graham’s well-attended rally in Hedon, Beverley and Holderness’s campaigning MP is continuing the battle to secure a banking hub for the market town.  At the rally in Market Place on Saturday, Graham heard residents’ concerns about losing vital banking services.

Graham to host rally for banking access in Hedon

Graham Stuart MP is organising a Rally for Hedon to allow residents to publicly demonstrate their strong support for continued access to vital banking services following the bureaucratic refusal by the cash access watchdog, LINK, to approve a Banking Hub for the historic market town.  The

Have your say on Beverley Police Station location, urges Graham

Following reports that Humberside Police is considering relocating Beverley Police Station from its current location on New Walk to buildings currently occupied by the Council in Register Square, Graham is encouraging people to have their say on the station’s proposed relocation.  Graham m

Vivergo to close following Prime Minister’s trade deal with US

Vivergo, the UK’s leading bioethanol plant based in Saltend, will close, leading to the loss of around 160 direct jobs and over 4,000 in the supply chain. The plant, which was struggling, will close following Keir Starmer’s trade deal with the US giving United States bioethanol producers tariff