PRESS RELEASE FROM ALISTAIR STRATHERN MP WEDNESDAY 17 th  DECEMBER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Local Member of Parliament, Alistair Strathern, has brought 50 Labour MPs together to demand Ofcom do more to fight child sexual abuse online.   The Hitchin MP’s letter to Ofcom Chief Executive, Dame Melanie Dawes calls on her to do everything in her power to stop grooming and the sharing of child sexual abuse material online.   Perpetrators of child sexual abuse often use private messa

PRESS RELEASE FROM ALISTAIR STRATHERN MP TUESDAY 16 th  DECEMBER 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Alistair Strathern, MP for Hitchin and the surrounding villages in Beds and Herts, has welcomed the fantastic news that the Universal Studios Bedfordshire Theme Park has been granted planning permission.   The decision was confirmed today by Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Steve Reed.   Since his very first day as a Bedfordshire MP back in 2023, Strathern has been

PRESS RELEASE FROM ALISTAIR STRATHERN MP THURSDAY 11 th  DECEMBER 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Following a series of industrial waste fires in Hitchin in 2023 and 2024, local MP Alistair Strathern has convened leading experts, local authorities, and safety campaigners in Westminster to address the growing threat posed by recycling lithium-ion batteries.   The roundtable, “A Burning Issue: How Policy Can Defuse Waste Battery Fires,” took place in the House of Commons, hosted i