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Helen Grant MP attended The Queen’s Gurkha Engineer (QGE) Regiment’s 74th Birthday celebrations at the famous Invicta Park Barracks in Maidstone last weekend.  She joined servicemen from the QGEs and 36 Engineer Regiment, former regimental officers and Lieutenant General Richard Wardlaw OBE (Colo

Helen Grant MP has presented the NFU’s Farming Hero Award for the constituency of Maidstone and the Weald to Peter Hall of Little Mill Farm, Marden.   It was awarded in recognition of his significant efforts to help improve and protect the local community and its environment.

The passing of Her Majesty has left me with a feeling of profound loss and sadness. Her leadership, diplomacy, dignity and unshakeable sense of duty to her country were a beacon of aspiration and an example for millions, both here and all around the world.

The past two years have reinforced, more than ever, how much we as a country value the NHS as a centrepiece of our society.

One of the most regular complaints in my postbag from Constituents is about difficulty in getting an appointment with a GP.  Sometimes the problem can be attributed to cumbersome surgery appointment systems, but increasingly it is because there simply are not enough doctors to satisfy an ever-gro

When I was a young girl at primary school, I remember our class reading a book called the Silver Sword, by Ian Serraillier. Based on fact, and set in 1940 in occupied Poland, it is a reminder of a terrible past that must not be forgotten.

Sissinghurst Castle Garden is reinstating the impressive Poplar Avenue, that was originally planted by former owners Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in 1932.  The Poplar Avenue is one of 70 National Trust tree planting initiatives for the Queen’s Green Canopy project, a unique tree planti

The Living Café in Earl Street, Maidstone, has managed to weather the covid storm in the face of serious trading adversity in the hospitality industry.  Maidstone’s MP Helen Grant went to meet the owner Patrick Letham to learn about his pandemic experience.

Kent MPs have welcomed the return of the Maidstone Apprenticeship Fair which took place last week.

Around 1,500 secondary school pupils from across Kent attended the event at the Maidstone Leisure Centre on Friday 11 March.

The MP for Maidstone and the Weald has expressed her deep concerns over Kent County Council’s proposed reduction of the £5.69m housing budget, which provides key support for people who are experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping.