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 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.

Top Holiday Park Kicking Off Tourist Season in Withernsea With 150 Jobs

Withernsea Sands is expanding its award-winning holiday park in Withernsea, which is marking the start of the new holiday season with the opening of its new holiday homes area, The Hawthorns.  Graham visited the park in advance of English Tourism Week and saw some of the new homes, which h

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

Graham Launching Local Business Directory

Graham is launching a Local Business Directory, enabling residents of Beverley and Holderness to support local businesses easily, should they so choose.  Businesses can express their interest in joining the directory at www.grahamstuart

Graham urges local people to support Small Business Saturday

Local businesses across Beverley and Holderness need customer support more than ever following the introduction of Labour’s National Insurance Jobs Tax, Graham Stuart MP has warned.   Graham, who ran a successful publishing business before becoming an MP, was speaking ahead of Small B

Graham asks Small Businesses for their views

Graham is a longstanding supporter of small businesses and this year, as part of Small Business Saturday on Saturday 7th December, he is asking small businesses across Beverley and Holderness to tell him what they think.  Small businesses are the lifeblood of our local economy and communit

Graham meets staff at Withernsea Banking Hub

Graham met staff at Withernsea Banking Hub in the SHoRes Centre for an update on the services being provided in the town.   In May 2023, Graham promised to protect local people’s access to cash following the news that the Lloyds branch in Withernsea would be closing in March. &nb