David Amess

David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West, today questioned the Department of Health on the end-of-life care strategy and the hospice movement.

David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West, has attended a series of meetings with key Members of the European Parliament.

David met with local MEPs Vicky Ford (pictured) and Geoffrey Van Orden, who represent the Eastern Region, and Timothy Kirkhope MEP (pictured) and Richard Ashworth MEP, respectively the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament.  He also met with Sarah Murray of the East of England Brussels Office.

David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West, last week met with Kurt Vandenberghe who leads the Cabinet of Environment Commissioner, Janez Potocnik, at the European Commission. David raised a number of environmental issues of concern to local residents in Southend West, most importantly the planned expansion of Southend Airport. 

Earlier this week David Amess conducted several visits in his Southend West constituency with Crossbench Peer Lord Alton. In 1997 Essex-born David Alton was made a life Peer as Lord Alton of Liverpool and opted to sit as an independent Crossbencher, having stood down as a Liberal Democrat MP. 

Fair Havens Hospice has received good news this Easter, having been awarded a Hospice Capital Grant by the Department of Health in a competitive scheme run by Help the Hospices.

This Parliament finished yesterday in the same way it started - it was absolutely shambolic. I said at the State Opening of Parliament that there would not be enough time to get bills through all the various parliamentary stages and for the legislation to be properly scrutinised. The result is that 14 bills have been rushed through without any proper scrutiny. The only good thing is that the Conservative Party insisted on the government dropping a number of their more damaging proposals. In all my time in Parliame

Conservative          20,086 (David Amess Elected)
Liberal Democrat    12,816
Lab                         5,850
UKIP                       1,714  

Local MP David Amess has teamed up with GMTV news reporter and presenter John Stapleton to support this year’s Carers Week (14 - 20 June) and celebrate the contribution made by people in Southend West, and throughout the UK, who provide unpaid care for someone who is ill, frail or disabled.

David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West, attended a musical extravaganza at Westcliff’s Palace Theatre at the weekend. The “Southend’s Got Talent” event showcased some of the fine young talent from the town, with well over 100 young people from local schools performing.

David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West, attended a wonderful performance by the Southend Festival Chorus this weekend. The Chorus performed Fauré’s Requiem and Duruflé's Requiem to an enchanted audience at Crowstone Christian Centre in Kings Road, Westcliff. The Southend Festival Chorus was formed in 1969 and has become one of the leading choirs of its type in the region - they perform at home and abroad and have recent