Henry Smith

Being elected to represent Crawley and Great Britain in the historic House of Commons is an honour. Regardless of whether someone voted for me or not my pledge is to help all constituents, champion our community and serve the country for a better future.

Henry lives in Crawley with his wife Jennifer, who used to work for the local NHS, and was a Crawley Councillor for eight years. They have a young daughter and son and spend what spare time there is with family activities. Henry ran his own Crawley based business and in 1997 was elected to

Encouragingly unemployment continues to fall with the rate now below 3.4% in Crawley, UK exports rose by an impressive £50 billion last year and the national deficit is down by a quarter since this Government came to office. People are currently being helped back into work by the Work Programme and

Gatwick Airport is critical to Crawley’s economy, providing employment opportunities together with related industries is important for our prosperity. I very much support the Airport management and local council’s future vision for Gatwick. We need to encourage increased passenger numbers through

Personally, I think it will prove to have been the worst decision in Crawley new town’s history to remove maternity in 2001 and A&E in 2005 to East Surrey Hospital. The acute facility at Redhill is at best inconvenient to reach and at worst could be life threatening in an emergency