A strategy to energise our local economy

THE economy of Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh has huge potential.

- Tony Vaughan

We have a large hospitality and tourism sector. We have a growing creative and digital industries sector. And it's not just services that we are good at. We have some brilliant small and medium sized businesses, such as NIC Instruments, which makes robots for the defence industry, which I was fortunate enough to visit recently. We also have Lydd Airport which deals with cargo and public sector work - and Dungeness Power Station, which creates hundreds of jobs in nuclear decommissioning. This is critically important infrastructure, which has a bright future.