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 Working Hard to Find a Future for Vivergo

Graham is working hard with Vivergo to find ways for the UK’s largest bio-ethanol plant to remain in business following the British government’s decision to allow US bio-ethanol producers access to the UK market, with 1.4 billion litres exempt from tariffs.  Vivergo in Saltend and Ensus in

We need to save UK Bioethanol”: Graham meets Vivergo workers in Parliament

The UK bioethanol industry, which makes our petrol from the pumps cleaner, is at risk – and with it Vivergo, which supports over 160 direct jobs, 4,000 in the supply chain and 800 farms in Yorkshire.  The recently announced tariff deal with the United States gives American bioethanol firms

Cost of Living Crisis Will Bite As Inflation Hits 3.5%

Graham has responded to the news that UK inflation has risen to 3.5%, warning that the increase is a sign of Labour’s misplaced priorities and a departure from the steady economic management under the Conservative government. Graham is encouraging residents to use his Support Hub, which aims to

Banking services saved in Withernsea as new Hub opens

Graham Stuart MP opened the new Banking Hub in Withernsea on Friday which will provide vital banking services to businesses and local people across the town. When Lloyds announced in 2023 that they would be closing in Withernsea, the last bank in the town, Graham promised to protect the communi

Graham speaks up for Beverley and Holderness on Question Time in Hull

Graham Stuart MP marked 20 years representing Beverley and Holderness in Parliament by joining the BBC Question Time panel in Hull - just miles from where he won re-election last July by a razor-thin margin of 124 votes.  The veteran local campaigner spoke out on a range of issues affectin

Graham Celebrating Our Finest Pubs as Reeves hammers the Local

With pubs facing the toughest circumstances since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all forms of hospitality, local MP Graham Stuart is celebrating local pubs in his Beverley and Holderness constituency as Chancellor Rachel Reeves chooses to hammer pubs across the UK.  He is encouraging peop

Pubs facing £21,000 Tax Bombshell

Following Labour’s October Budget of Broken Promises and March’s Emergency Budget, pubs are having to make difficult decisions as the cost of Rachel Reeves begins to bite.

Could a Thousand New Jobs be Coming To Holderness?

Graham is working with Meld Energy to get government approval for its proposed green hydrogen facility at Saltend Chemical Park, which will create over a thousand constructions jobs over the next four years.  Graham visited the site of the potential £200 million investment and will continu