Mid Suffolk is a local government district in Suffolk,England. The district is primarily a rural area,containing just three towns,being Stowmarket,Needham Market and Eye. Its council was based in Needham Market until 2017 when it moved to shared offices with neighbouring Babergh District Council in Ipswich,outside either district. In 2021 it had a population of 103,417.
Babergh District is a local government district in Suffolk,England. In 2021 it had a population of 92,300. The district is primarily a rural area,containing just two towns,Sudbury and Hadleigh,which was the administrative centre until 2017 when the council moved to shared offices with neighbouring Mid Suffolk District Council in Ipswich,outside either district. The district is named after the medieval Babergh Hundred,which covered part of the area.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary is the local territorial police force that covers the county of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough unitary authority. It provides law enforcement and security for an area of 1,311 square miles (3,400 km2) and population of 856,000 people,in a predominantly rural county. The force of Cambridgeshire includes the cities of Cambridge,Ely and Peterborough,the market towns of Chatteris,Huntingdon,March,Ramsey,St Ives,St Neots,Whittlesey,and town and Port of Wisbech. Its emblem is a crowned Brunswick star containing the heraldic badge of Cambridgeshire County Council.
Suffolk Coastal is a parliamentary constituency in the county of Suffolk,England which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Thérèse Coffey,a Conservative Member of Parliament. She served as Secretary of State for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs from October 2022 to November 2023
Suffolk County Council is the administrative authority for the county of Suffolk,England. It is run by 75 elected county councillors representing 63 divisions. It is a member of the East of England Local Government Association.
Benedict Michael Gummer is a British businessman and former politician. He is a partner of Gummer Leathes,a property developer. He is a senior adviser to McKinsey &Company,the management consultancy,a visiting fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and a member of the advisory board of the Office for Place.
Ipswich Borough Council is the local authority for Ipswich,a non-metropolitan district with borough status in Suffolk,England. It is the second tier of a two-tier system,fulfilling functions such as refuse collection,housing and planning,with Suffolk County Council providing county council services such as transport,education and social services.
Peter James Guy Aldous is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Waveney constituency in Suffolk since the 2010 general election.
Daniel Leonard James Poulter is a British Conservative Party politician,who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. Poulter is a psychiatrist and served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health between September 2012 and May 2015 when he returned to the backbenches.
James Roger Cartlidge is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Suffolk since 2015,and has been serving as Minister of State for Defence Procurement since 2023. He served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from 2022 to 2023 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice between 2021 and 2022.
The 2017 Suffolk County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 75 councillors were elected from 63 electoral divisions,which returned either one or two county councillors each,by first-past-the-post voting,for a four-year term of office.
The inaugural Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The supplementary vote system was used to elect the mayor for a four-year term of office. Subsequent elections will be held in May 2021 and every four years after.
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority is a combined authority covering the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire in the East of England. The authority was established on 3 March 2017. The authority is led by the directly elected Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Colin Lawrence Noble is a British politician of the Conservative Party. He served as leader of the Suffolk Conservatives group and Leader of Suffolk County Council from May 2015 to May 2018.
James Palmer is a former politician who was the first Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough between 2017 and 2021. As a councillor,he was previously leader of East Cambridgeshire District Council between May 2013 and May 2017. He was also a county councillor for the Soham and Fordham Villages electoral division of Cambridgeshire County Council between 2009 and 2017. Palmer was elected as the Conservative candidate on 4 May,2017,however lost the subsequent 6 May 2021 election to Labour Party candidate Nik Johnson and announced his retirement from politics.
Alexander Gordon Martin is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich from 9 June 2017 to 6 November 2019. A member of the Labour Party,he was elected in the 2017 general election,beating Conservative incumbent Ben Gummer. On 25 October 2018,he became Shadow Minister for Waste and Recycling. He lost his seat at the 2019 general election.
Paul Bristow is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Peterborough since the 2019 general election. A member of the Conservative Party,he worked as a public relations consultant and was the chairman of the lobbying trade body,the Association of Professional Political Consultants,prior to his parliamentary career. Bristow was also a councillor on Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council between 2006 and 2010.
Robin John Millar is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberconwy since 2019.
The 2021 Suffolk County Council election took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 75 councillors were elected from 63 electoral divisions,which return either one or two county councillors each,by first-past-the-post voting,for a four-year term of office.
The 2023 East Suffolk District Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members of East Suffolk District Council in Suffolk,England. This was held on the same day as other local elections. All 55 seats on the council were up for election.
