Local Business and Tourism

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liz Truss, has used a visit to several food manufacturers in Cornwall to unveil new figures that showed food and agricultural exports in the first quarter of 2018 were up for the fourth year in a row in the county.

The Great British High Street Awards are returning this year and North Cornwall MP Scott Mann is calling on local high streets to put themselves forward as the best in Britain.

Scott Mann has met with Heathrow Airport in Parliament to discuss its importance to the Cornish economy and the creation of a new link with Newquay through the construction of a third runway.

Dairy Crest has today announced that their Davidstow creamery site in North Cornwall will receive a £75 million boost – a move which will secure 200 jobs and provide confidence to 330 farmers.

Scott Mann has today “cut the ribbon” with Postmaster Darren Wills to officially open a new Post Office mobile service to serve seven rural communities in North Cornwall.

A multi-agency cross party group has been established to address local concerns about street trading in Padstow. The group includes representatives from Cornwall Council, Devon & Cornwall Police, Padstow Town Council, Padstow Harbour Commissioners and the local Member of Parliament.

Scott Mann, Member of Parliament for North Cornwall, joined Tourism Minister Michael Ellis MP for a drop-in session on Tuesday 20 March to celebrate English Tourism Week and to meet with representatives of national tourist organisation VisitBritain/VisitEngland, to hear about the launch of its gl

Scott Mann has officially opened a new £2.5 million laboratory and racking facility at Sharp’s Brewery in Rock which will deliver a boost to production of cask ale.

Scott Mann, has asked the Prime Minister to support calls for milk to be offered in supermarket meal deals as part of a campaign to promote milk as part of a healthy diet.

The Government has confirmed that universal high speed broadband will be delivered by a regulatory Universal Service Obligation (USO), giving everyone in the UK access to speeds of at least 10 Mbps by 2020.