Local MP Pauline Latham welcomes news that Celanese is to retain a small workforce locally when most of the manufacturing moves abroad but she calls for help for those who will lose their jobs.

Pauline Latham OBE MP will be holding a surgery as Member of Parliament for Mid Derbyshire on Saturday the 4th September in West Hallam.

Pauline Latham calls for clarification on how the Bill impacts on the health funding that currently supports some special educational needs children and how that funding will continue if a school becomes an Academy.

Pauline Latham welcomes the Government's stance on international development and calls on the Government to learn from the many small projects - such as Project Uganda - which are being carried out in developing countries by churches and schools.

Speaking in the Budget debate, Pauline Latham welcomes the emergency Budget and raises the issue of the listed places of worship grant scheme, urging the Chancellor to continue the scheme after its current scheduled finish date of March 2011.

Pauline makes her maiden speech in the House of Commons and she pays tribute to the four MPs who represented parts of the new Mid Derbyshire constituency in the last Parliament. She highlights local places of interest such as the Derwent Valley Mills and her interest in International Development and Project Uganda.

During Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, Pauline Latham calls on the Prime Minister to do all he can to help constituents who will lose their jobs as a result of the closure of the headquarters and branches of the Derbyshire building society.

Pauline Latham has teamed up with ITV’s This Morning celebrity GP, Dr Chris Steele MBE, to support this year’s Carers Week (14 - 20 June) and celebrate the contribution made by people in Mid Derbyshire and throughout the UK, who provide unpaid care for someone who is ill, frail or disabled.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Pauline Latham welcomes plans to increase the transparency in the distribution of the UK's international aid programmes and asks the Secretary of State about the benefits not only to UK taxpayers but also to the intended recipients.

Pauline Latham is supporting Ovarian Cancer Action's Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in March.