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Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed Pepper
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Member of Parliament For Hornchurch and Upminster Since my last column, the tense votes I wrote about on the EU Withdrawal Bill have passed and that legislation has received Royal Assent to become law, ensuring that we shall be leaving the European Union in March next year. However there is still plenty of water to flow under the bridge over the shape of our future relationship with the EU, and with events moving apace there is the potential for
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With a lag between my writing this column and its publication, there is little point in my making predictions but as ever, we are doing plenty of things aside Brexit both in parliament and in the constituency. Last week, I hosted here in parliament clergy from the area to discuss how we might work together to the benefit of local people. It was an excellent meeting, and I learned about the superb initiatives underway at churches in Cranham and Upminster, such as the debt advice service offered by St Luke’s, community lunch clubs to reduce isolation at All Saints and worship for people with learning disabilities at Cranham Baptist Church. Meanwhile in the constituency I attended a fantastic breakfast meeting for local businesses at Pinney Talfourd on Station Road where I shared my experiences as a parliamentarian and got feedback from businesses about what they are seeking from government. I also met members of the Upminster branch of Friends of the Earth about their concerns over air quality, airport expansion, and biodiversity. Increasing the profile of our constituency has been a top priority for me in order that
we attract the right resource and political attention. I was delighted, therefore, to be able to help raise the profile of Havering as a great place to start a teaching career by attending a graduation ceremony of newly qualified teachers at Engayne Primary School, Cranham. All graduates have secured places at schools in the borough, and we hope that this programme can now be extended to secondary level to maintain a flow of talented professionals into local schools. Finally, I have been working on two important pieces of legislation designed to keep constituents safe - first, as a member of the Committee which scrutinises line-by-line the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill, and second, by speaking in support of the government’s Offensive Weapons Bill which gives police more tools to crackdown on knives and acid. As ever, if you have a problem you think my team and I can help you with, please drop us a line! Or if you would like to come and have a look around parliament, we can book you in for a complimentary tour. Julia.Lopez.MP@parliament.uk 0207 219 2631 www.julialopez.co.uk
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RECIPE Stuffed Peppers
Ingredients: 1 bell pepper per person 1 small onion 2 cloves garlic 1lb minced beef 1.5 cups cooked rice 1 tin of chopped tomatoes 1 cup of cheese
Method: 1. Cut the tops off the peppers and deseed the insides
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2. Put the peppers into a bake-proof dish filled with just enough water to cover the bottom. Sprinkle with salt. 3. Preheat the oven to 190oc, cover the dish with foil and cook the peppers for about 10 minutes.
6. Add in the beef and cook through for about 8 minutes. 7. Remove from the heat and stir in the rice and tomatoes. 8. Fill the peppers and then add the cheese on top.
4. Meanwhile prepare your fillings. For this recipe we have chosen a ricebased filling.
9. Bake uncovered for about 20 minutes then serve.
5. In a large pan, heat some oil and gently fry the onion. When softened, add the crushed garlic and cook for
10. You can make and refrigerate these a day ahead but add about 10 more minutes to the baking time.
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july savings roundup Are Premium Bonds primed for a rate reduction at National Savings & Investments? NS&I released its annual report at the end of June. At 149 pages you’ll need several cups of tea, or something stronger, to see you through it! With the government savings provider now responsible for £157bn of the nation’s savings, it accounts for 11% of the savings market and ranks alongside Barclays and HSBC only lagging Lloyds Banking Group (which includes the likes of Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, BM Savings), the market leader, who hold over £200bn of savings. What’s interesting is the funding target it has been set. Each year, HM Treasury gives NS&I a target and a range. Last year it was to grow savings by £8bn (with a range of £5bn – 11bn). It actually achieved £9.8bn. This year, its target is £6bn (with a range of £3bn - £9bn). This is a very low growth of just 3.8% and, when compared to the overall market growth of around 5%, could end up being a decrease in real terms. Why is this important? Well, NS&I really has three main ways of reducing savings coming in. It can withdraw products, it can
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reduce maximum balances or it can cut pricing. It has already started on the first two options – it has withdrawn its Income Guaranteed Growth Bond from sale (which was only launched in April 2017) and it has reduced the amount you can put in its popular Income Bonds from £1m to just £10,000. Given that it’s no notice Direct Saver pays 0.95% (compared to the market leading 1.35%), it’s 1 Year Bond pays 1.50% (versus 2.05% being the best rate) and its 3 Year pays 1.95% (versus 2.35%), it’s not obvious where it could look for rate reductions in its ordinary savings range. However, its Premium Bonds prize fund interest rate is 1.40% which compares very favourably to the best instant savings accounts which offer around 1.25% - 1.30%. With £75bn now invested in Premium Bonds, they account for almost half of all NS&I’s deposit book and they grew by almost £6bn in 2017/18 tax year. Given the highly attractive rate, they must surely be a prime candidate for NS&I to slow down inflows and I’d be very surprised if there isn’t a rate reduction before the end of 2018. Why straight forward instant savings accounts are a better deal for savers
We’ve noticed an increase recently in instant savings accounts with alluringly attractive interest rates but hidden catches, which can prove costly. The number of bonus accounts is on the rise. While we don’t cover these on our own website, other comparison sites do, and we feel they seek to take advantage of savers who forget to move at the end of a lengthy bonus period. Post Office Money pay a headline 1.33% but a whopping 1.08% of this is a 12 month bonus. Coventry Building Society, usually a bastion of fair play, have also joined in with their 1.30% account boosted by a 0.30% bonus, also for a year. Limited withdrawals are another feature being used. Virgin Money’s Double Take E-Saver (paying 1.30%) is limited to two withdrawals a year, and closing your account counts as a withdrawal. So if you take out cash twice, you can’t have access to the remainder of your money until the following year. Sainsbury’s Bank Defined Access Saver, also paying 1.30%, allows savers three withdrawals a year but, if you make more, your rate will drop significantly to just 0.50%.
RCI Bank and Shawbrook Bank both pay 1.30%, with £100 and £1,000 minimum balances respectively, without any such restrictions, and have appeared in our best buys for the past year. We’d suggest savers looking for consistently attractive interest rates without any catches could do worse than look at these straight forward providers. Interest rates continue to rise, but slowly! In our May column, we ran a comparison on interest rates for savings accounts to show that rates had increased during the year, but only by very small margins and nothing like what many commentators were portraying. The good news for savers is that rates have continued to increase since with increasing competition driving the upward movement. The Financial Times reported last month that the number of savings accounts is at a six year high. The market can move quickly, so we always recommend that you check our website for the latest rates. At time of going to print, our best paying rates are:
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