On 5 March 2020, the BBC reported that a 70-year-old woman in the Royal Berkshire Hospital had become the first Briton to die of COVID-19. Exactly one year and so many deaths on, Covid Memorial Day will be a moment for Britain’s to take a moment to grieve.

Today, the House of Commons launches the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill, chaired by James Sunderland MP. The Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill 2021 has held its first meeting to agree its programme of scrutiny on the Armed Forces Bill 2019-21.

James Sunderland has welcomed the Government’s Vaccines Delivery Plan – the biggest vaccination programme in British history – that sets ambitious targets as the government continues to ramp up its vaccine rollout.

James Sunderland MP has today pledged their support for the Long Live the Local campaign to help pubs in Bracknell survive. James Sunderland MP joins over 500,000 people who have signed the petition so far, including 788 in Bracknell alone.

4 million vaccines have now been given in the UK. There is huge progress on our road to recovery. Huge thank you to everyone playing a part in our national effort to defeat COVID as we accelerate the vaccine rollout across the country.

James is encouraging local schools to join a live event hosted by the Holocaust Educational Trust at 10am on Tuesday 26th January.

Over 3000 women in the UK each year are diagnosed with cervical cancer with 850 deaths. That’s more than 2 women a day dying from the disease. By raising the number of women who go for their smear test, we can save lives. 

James Sunderland publishes his Annual Report 2020.

Bracknell constituency has today bucked the prevailing economic trend by having five new locally-based engineering jobs created by Openreach, to be filled during 2021.