After successfully supporting a residents’ campaign to re-instate neighbourhood bus services last year Torbay MP Kevin Foster is again taking up their cause after they again face being left without a service.

Torbay’s MP Kevin Foster got on his (Exercise) Bike for the Annual Industry and Parliament Trust (IPT) Poppy Ride, cycling a total of 2.78km in the time allowed.

As part of a series of Remembrance events, Torbay’s MP Kevin Foster attended a Parliamentary session with Care after Combat, the charity working to help prisoner veterans to reintegrate into society after leaving prison, to learn more about its vital mentoring services. 

Torbay’s MP Kevin Foster showed his support for renters on Friday 26th October 2018, when he attended and spoke in the Report Stage & Third Reading of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill.

Figures released this week show unemployment has remained at its lowest rate in more than four decades. Meanwhile, youth unemployment has fallen to its lowest rate since records began.

Torbay’s MP Kevin Foster has welcomed new figures showing 7,000 more people in Torquay and Paignton are now enrolled in a workplace pension.

Universal Credit Full Service (UCFS) rolls out on 5 September and it will apply to new claimants and those who have a change of circumstances that would mean they would usually make a new claim to one of the six benefits UCFS replaces. (JSA, ESA, IS, WTC, CTC and housing benefit).

Kevin is still getting a regular stream of complaints from constituents across the bay about missed refuse and recycling collections, as well as the poor quality of some collections that have taken place.

Last week, Kevin met with three students from The Spires College in Torquay to discuss the work they have been doing as part of the 2018 ‘Send my Friend to School’ Campaign, which focusses on making schools across the world a safe space for children to learn.

A number of constituents have contacted me over the weekend regarding the unacceptable situation in parts of the bay with the Tor 2 refuse collections. Some residents have now gone two weeks without a collection, which Tor 2 has attributed to staff shortages and equipment failure.